- From: Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>
- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 10:41:53 -0800
- To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
FYI: There is a company here in Vancouver doing amazing work building an open source, cross-platform SDK for native-feeling apps using Web technologies. * http://phonegap.com/ "PhoneGap aims to solve device integration by web enabling devices' native functionality with open standards." On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org> wrote: > > Just posted to the TAG blog: > > http://www.w3.org/blog/tag/ > http://www.w3.org/QA/2009/02/palm_webos_approach_to_html_ex.html > > > Palm webOS approach to HTML extensibility: x-mojo-* > > I got pretty excited about the iPhone, and even more about the openness > of Android and the G1, and then I learn that the Palm Pre developer > platform is basically just the open web platform: HTML, CSS, and > JavaScript. > > Just after the TAG declared victory on how to build The Self-Describing > Web with URI-based Extensibility and the mobile buzz at Web Directions > North, I get some details on how Palm is building on the open web > platform: > > A widget is declared within your HTML as an empty div with an > x-mojo-element attribute. > <div x-mojo-element="ToggleButton" id="my-toggle"></div> > > Oh great; x- tokens... aren't those passe by now? > > The suggestion in the HTML 5 draft is data-* attributes. The ARIA draft > suggests @role. The Palm design looks like new information for issue-41, > Decentralized-extensibility, in the HTML WG. > > Anybody know how frozen the Palm design is? Or if they looked at ARIA, > data-* or URI-based namespaces? > > > -- > Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/ > gpg D3C2 887B 0F92 6005 C541 0875 0F91 96DE 6E52 C29E > > >
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