For months before the release of the Pre, we saw articles with statements like this:
"The cost of learning is very low and people can use existing JavaScript libraries to speed up their development process."
Yesterday, the developer of the new
Homebrew application, the
Scientific Calculator, said:
This is almost not a palm pre app. It has no mojo in it at all... It's a direct port of a decade old javascript calculator program. It uses (for golly's sake) imagemaps.
Wow. I understand that this is a small application.
Developers:
1. Are you able to use old Java, CSS, or HTML code with little modification?
2. Do you have similar application modules you could port over?
3. How does iPhone development compare with the Pre?
Are we are about to see an explosion of applications?
- Craig