The Competition: Palm Launches Ares Beta, Browser-based webOS Development Environment
Our friends over at PreCentral.net bring word that Palm has launched a beta version of their browser-based IDE (integrated development environment) for webOS called Project Ares (sounds Manga, harkens to the Hellenic god of war — nice!). Supports Safari, Chrome, and Firefox (no mention of Internet Explorer?).
You can simply fire up your browser and go to http://ares.palm.com/, sign in with your developer account, and get coding.
Apple’s iPhone SDK and IDE, evolved from the very mature Mac Xcode and Interface Builder, and the Cocoa Touch frameworks are often cited as reasons for the App Store’s success and the quality and consistency of some of the very best apps. So, providing Palm webOS developers with similar tools (and frameworks?) is smart. And how utterly appropriate for a platform ballsy enough to be webOS, programmed in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, to be ballsy enough to move their IDE to the cloud. How Palm keeps out-Googling Google in the mobile space is amazing.
We throw the horns up in your general direction, sirs.
(We’ll also reference back to Apple’s PastryKit JavaScript frameworks, and wonder aloud again whether Apple will make it public, along with a Dashcode-style IDE for iPhone WebApps to go along with it? And would they — or should they — ever make it similarly cloud-basd?)
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Excuse me…
I yawned and hit the submit button in a haze of drool-inducing boredom.
amazing, i have no experience with coding or watever and i made an app.
I gave it a whirl and I’m actually pretty impressed. I’m going to dig around a little deeper tomorrow.
@Rene
Project Ares uses the Open Source Bespin code editor at its core. Bespin and Ares rely extensively on the HTML element, which no version of Internet Explorer yet supports. Early on, The Bespin leads tried some -free efforts, but found both the layout control and performance lacking, and so decided support a requirement for their software.
Microsoft has not put support into IE, though third parties have attempted to bolt it on. While originated for Dashboard widgets, the tag looks likely to make it into HTML5, so, presumably IE will get support, and tools like Bespin/Ares, in whatever version of IE that supports HTML5, and not before.
ugh…the comment software does not escape tags. The above is about the <canvas/> tag. IE does not support it, so they lose out on tools like Ares and Bespin.
I’d like to see Dashboard be made more user friendly.
Checking things out on the Ipad. Cool toy for sure. One thing I don’t like is the nav buttons don’t work well Any ideas?
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