My First Palm Pre App

It's deadly simple.

1. Install Palm SDK/Emulator on Linux (Two .deb and one Sun JRE package)
2. Follow Hello World Tutorial

What I can tell right now:

• webOS is "real web". UI element is <div> and you can change it via JavaScript DOM tree plus optional CSS.
• Feel like writing OS X Dashboard widget or Firefox extension. The packaging system is very similar to Firefox extension.
• 4-5 command line steps to re-deployment on emulator. You need a small shellscript to help.
• Programming approach is MVC.
• You don't need a Mac to develop Palm app. Windows and Linux are first tier development platform too.