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Project Ares Open Beta (IDE for writing Mojo apps for WebOS)

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11 pointsronnieliew5 comments

Anyone who's interested in HTML5 should give this a look. Ares heavily leverages things like the <canvas> tag to provide a rather nice development environment.

More importantly it's a web app, so your tools are always up-to-date. The moment that Palm releases a new SDK or device, it'll be available via Ares.

I've been playing with it during the Alpha period, and I've been really impressed by the speed of development. New functionality and bugfixes have been pushed regularly, and the Palm developers have been extremely responsive to bug reports and feature requests. They've been iterating incredibly rapidly, which bodes well for the future.

All I get is a blank screen (thats trying to load bootstrap.js) after logging into http://ares.palm.com/Ares/index.html

FTA, it looks like the UI is based on bespin which uses canvas. I tried on FF 3 and Opera 10. Could that be a problem

It is indeed based on Bespin, which means no IE support. Scuttlebutt from the Ares dev team is that they're trying to support all browsers that are HTML5 compliant, but abandoning the ones that aren't.

Found this in the docs:

Ares has been tested on:

    * OSX: Safari 4.0+, Firefox 3.5+
    * Windows: Chrome 3, 4, Firefox 3.5+, Safari 4.0+
    * Linux: Firefox 3.5+

As someone whose written a few WebOS apps, this shows great promise - building UIs is much easier than doing it by hand. Looking forward to trying it at home where I have the emulator installed!

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