{"product_id":"9781449379230","title":"Palm webOS: The Insider's Guide to Developing Applications in JavaScript using the Palm Mojo Framework","description":"A Note from the Author and from O'Reilly Media about what this book\u003cbr\u003edoes--and doesn't--do:\u003cbr\u003ePalm webOS is a brand new platform and represents a very different type of\u003cbr\u003eoperating system where the web runtime is used as the basis for the UI and\u003cbr\u003eApplication model. Palm and O'Reilly felt that it was important to have a\u003cbr\u003ebook available to help developers get a basic understanding of the new Palm\u003cbr\u003eplatform at the time that the SDK was released; this timing played a major\u003cbr\u003erole in the content and structure of the book.\u003cbr\u003eIdeally this book would have been a complete reference of the new platform\u003cbr\u003ebut that wasn't possible since the content was written at the same time as\u003cbr\u003ethe software SDK was being developed by the Palm engineering team. The book\u003cbr\u003edoes provide a complete overview of Palm webOS, a thorough description of\u003cbr\u003ethe application model and gives details on many key design concepts. There\u003cbr\u003eare descriptions and examples of UI widgets, services, storage,\u003cbr\u003enotifications, dashboards and background applications, serving as a great\u003cbr\u003eintroduction but not as a definitive source.\u003cbr\u003eThe book uses a simple News reader application to illustrate the technical\u003cbr\u003edescriptions but the examples are not intended to serve as a cookbook\u003cbr\u003etutorial. Experienced developers should be able to use the examples to build\u003cbr\u003eup a working application chapter by chapter but others may not find the\u003cbr\u003eloose descriptions adequate for recreating the application unaided. Over\u003cbr\u003etime, these different needs will be filled by other books, but in the\u003cbr\u003emeantime we hope that this book will serve a valuable role introducing\u003cbr\u003edevelopers to webOS and giving them a way of getting started with webOS\u003cbr\u003eapplication development.\u003cbr\u003eA second printing of the book will update any original coverage obsoleted by\u003cbr\u003esubsequent Mojo SDK builds. For owners of the original printing of the book,\u003cbr\u003eall of these updates are posted on the \"View\/Submit Errata\" link (please see\u003cbr\u003eleft-hand column of this web page).\u003cbr\u003eThanks for understanding that book publishing and coverage of rapidly moving\u003cbr\u003etechnologies can sometimes be an inexact science; we knew there'd be a need\u003cbr\u003efor a book such as Palm webOS: The Insider's Guide to Developing\u003cbr\u003eApplications in JavaScript using the Palm MojoT Framework, and there's\u003cbr\u003ecertainly no better person to write that book that Mitch Allen; that said,\u003cbr\u003ewe understand that because it is such a new operating system and SDK, there\u003cbr\u003ewould (and will continue to be) changes that at best can't be documented and\u003cbr\u003eexplored until new printings of the books are released. In the meantime we\u003cbr\u003ewill be diligent in posting updates to this book's O'Reilly Media catalog\u003cbr\u003epage.\u003cbr\u003eDescription\u003cbr\u003eThis is the official guide to building native JavaScript applications for Palm's new mobile operating system, Palm® webOS™. Written by Palm's software chief technology officer along with the Palm webOS development team, Palm webOS provides a complete tutorial on the design principles, architecture, UI, tools, and services necessary to develop webOS applications-including the Mojo JavaScript framework and Palm's SDK.\u003cbr\u003ePalm webOS is designed to support a fast and superb user experience using established web standards, so if you're familiar with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, you're ready to build applications for any webOS-based device, including the Palm Pre. You'll gain expertise, chapter by chapter, as you build a working mobile application through the course of the book. You'll also learn how to extend existing web apps to work with the new generation of mobile phones. Get a thorough overview of the webOS platform and architecture\u003cbr\u003eUnderstand the critical concepts for application design: what separates webOS from other web and mobile platforms\u003cbr\u003eLearn the details of Mojo's development tools and SDK for building and testing mobile applications\u003cbr\u003eExamine best practices, important considerations, and guiding principles for developing with webOS and the Mojo framework","brand":"O'Reilly Media, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128408817904,"sku":"9781449379230","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781449379230_p0.jpg?v=1763829933","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781449379230","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}