Palm Pulls the Plug On Palm OS

BobB-nw writes to tell us that Palm has decided to kill their PalmOS operating system and is instead betting their future on a still mostly unknown Palm webOS. Very little is known about the new Palm webOS, but it will supposedly support HTML5 and enable a local data store so that applications can be used both online and off. All of this is rolled into a Linux framework with a message bus based on JSON. Will be interesting to see where they take it.

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PLEASE! NO HTML5!

[Hurricane78]

I'm begging you.

XHTML was a successful attempt at letting HTML have an actual check on any validity. That way it was not possible to create that horrible mess of a trash-code that was done with the earlier versions.

But from working in that area for five years, I know, that 95% of all web-developers are actually completely incompetent, and never heard of any applicable programmer concepts like modularity, pretty printing, or proper structure. So they used the "Transitional" versions. But XTHML 1.1 and upwards have no transitional versions anymore. So they must have feared to lose their jobs because it could come out that they are not able to create a single proper page of markup.

So now they go back to making their Browsers guessing what they meant, being able to forget closing tags, so the browser has to guess it, which creates a semantic nightmare, and all-in-all not applying any structure on the code.

Hell, in my company, they did not even know the difference between Unix and Windows line endings. And so, their editor always made two lines out of one... Adding white space lines, until there were a dozen between every line of code. But nobody except me did ever remove them. They just kept scrolling like crazy. And don' even ask about searching and replacing them with the builtin RegExp functionality.

They would die before finishing to read the error output, if a browser would act like a real compiler on their "code".

And: No. HTML is NOT something that you should be able to use without acquiring proper knowledge first. Same as with a computer.