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Doesn't TouchPad come with built-in DropBox integration? I haven't tried it, but at least DropBox was in the accounts list.

Agreed that Enyo is cool. Reminds me a lot about QML: http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7-snapshot/qdeclarativeintroductio... ...especially with Qt Quick Components: http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2010/09/10/building-the-future-rein...

Actually, I wonder how hard it would be to either:

1. Map Enyo to QML so that webOS apps could be run elsewhere

2. Make QML run under Enyo, so webOS could have apps from other systems

I was actually thinking QML too when I started using Enyo. There is a huge difference though, QML is yet another language. "We should totally reinvent CSS and HTML!" If I had a nickel for every time that happened...

The difficulty of running QML on a webOS device, or Enyo apps on Android or iOS, is not technical. It's more about look and feel. One glance into Qt code (not QML, Qt proper) and you can see how painful it is to make a single app look native across platforms.

Here is where I think Enyo has potential. It should be possible to style Enyo for different platforms AND to easily include components that implement OS specific behaviors and paradigms.

The built in integration only allows you to open documents. Not pictures, videos, music, etc. It also does not allow you to upload new files.

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