Palminfocenter has posted an interesting interview with Pandora about developing the Pandora software for webOS. He expands on the advantages and disadvantages of developing phone apps using web languages:
I think that there is a bit of a trade-off there, in fact I think when they first told us about their approach I was sceptical that you would be able as a developer to get a really great user experience with fluid presentation just using HTML/Javascript/CSS and so on in the Mojo framework... but I think for a certain class of application – when you think about an email application, or the contacts application, or something like Google Maps or Pandora – I think all of these classes of applications are really going to be fantastic to build and deliver on webOS. Anything like a medical encyclopaedia – anything sort of data and presentation-oriented I think will be very very easy to develop and have fantastic user experience characteristics. Even for multimedia applications like Pandora.
He also gushes on the greatness of the Pre hardware. A nice little inside look from one of the only companies so far to have developed with the mojo toolkit.
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