| 1st steps - touch'n base [message #562289] |
Tue, 01 September 2009 15:38 |
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Originally posted by: employment.genuitec.com
Following is a msg I posted to the blinki maillist last week. Since not
everyone follows that list I'm reposting it here.
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Hi All,
I'm excited to finally be able to put some energy into the Blinki project. I
realize the project has been idle for quite sometime. That is behind us now
and we are moving forward. Before sharing a couple of details about upcoming
Blinki activities I would like to reflect for a moment on the growing
interest in mobile web and in general the rapid recognition of the role
HTML5 and the smartphone browser are playing in changing mobile use
patterns. A few cool major developments include:
- Google announcing that mobile web is at the heart of its mobile strategy
- adoption of the WebKit engine continues to grow as more and more
smartphones in the dev pipeline are announcing plans to ship with it
- growing disillusionment with the AppStore; Google claims the AppStores are
temporary (Do you agree?)
Ok enough reflection. So what's up with Blinki you may ask?
The first bit of news is we are preparing to OSS our WebKit4SWT codebase
next week. We had hoped to do this well before now but had a couple of
murphy's law incidences that have held us up. While I have worked with and
followed Eclipse closely since its initial OSS, I have not been through the
IP process. So this will be a learning process for the team and me. I'll
post more details as we get that codebase ready for the IP process.
The second development is mobile web framework research that Greg Amerson
and I are conducting. So far we have been working with PhoneGap to get 1st
hand knowledge of its strengths and weaknesses. We plan to look at several
other similar frameworks as background research for Blinki. We will be
sharing our findings as they become available. If you have experience with
any of the PhoneGap-like frameworks we welcome you input.
Wayne
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