In a lot of programming languages, I would even say in most programming languages, the following looks awkward and does surely not work. One of those languages is C. But JavaScript is sometimes a miracle and like a box of jewelery, ready to be discovered. And if you are new to it, it is loaded with surprises. Read on to get a tiny glimpse into some of them. JavaScript has some really interesting things waiting.
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Porting a W3C widget to webOS should not take a lot of effort, should it? webOS is built on top of web technologies, and in my mind the web is tagged “#universal”. But unfortunately, webOS isn’t universal. It’s different. I’m going to show you which differences you need to be aware of when doing cross-platform development and your application is supposed to run on webOS. Read the rest of this entry »