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It's looking great, but there's one detail I had feared might be the case, which seems to have happened: Font Bureau's lovely, custom type family Prelude appears to have met the licensing axe. (More on Prelude here: http://webos.org/2009/07/05/webos-font-is-called-prelude-dev... )

It's a shame, because Prelude was as much a part of the WebOS identity as Helvetica Neue is to iOS or Roboto is to Android 4+. What might be best at this point, if it's true that Prelude simply cannot be legally included in the OSS distribution, is that a new, open-source family be selected. I'd suggest Lato, a friendly, 10-weight family with a similar humanized geometricism to Prelude's Futura lineage. (http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Lato)

Would users be able to replace the typeface on their own? Thinking back to 1980s Mac days when people could replace the System Font...

I doubt the font police will knock down your door, but it is legally dubious. https://developer.palm.com/distribution/viewtopic.php?f=92&#... If you don't have a WebOS device, you can find the URLs in this document http://thyb.net/cosmos/coconutfont.css

And I believe these are the instructions for changing the font in the Luna launcher (although it might be easier when you're running it on a PC) http://forums.webosnation.com/webos-development/197905-how-c...

I do not speak officially from within H/Palm, but during my time as an intern there this summer, we rebuilt the Enyo website and used Lato as our typeface. This is subject to change, but I feel its a great fit if we cannot move forward with Prelude.

http://enyojs.com/ - Check out index.css, line 671. I apologize for the lengthy CSS, we used SASS (which I strongly recommend) and the original plan was to minify the CSS and keep the sass files available publicly, but it seems this has changed since my internship ended.

with all it's libraries open webos would actually make a pretty nice desktop development toolkit. (yeah i know, it's html5 and desktop html5 kinda sux), but that thing definitely amounts to some of the best looking linux apps around.

Same thought. The core of webos looks small, and capable enough to make most of day to day apps. It would reduce friction and unnecessary toolkit complexity.

Heck, I'm missing my Pré. WebOS really buries Android UI-wise (and it buries iOS when it comes to multitasking).

Can't agree more with you. I still have my Pre and, 3rd party application support excepted, it's a wonderful phone.

Too bad phones these days are mostly pocket computers that make phone calls.

I still have my Pré+ too, but it's getting old (more than 2 years), the screen is badly scratched, a piece of glass is missing near the USB port and a crack is slowly enlarging; and recently the audio jack went awry, making the phone believing I was using headphones when none were plugged in, which is hardly practical when you try replying an incoming call :)

Couldn't agree more. I booted up my launch-day Pre also and while the hardware wasn't performant by any means for the OS they did so many things right. I also found I actually really miss the physical vertical slide-out keyboard.

Wow, I expected it to look more like a choppy, buggy emulator but that's really smooth!

Well, it is largely HTML5, so it may not be emulated.

They should change the slide to unlock feature before Apple sees this :)

Not now .... webOS is not yet a threat to Apple or iOS :)

Gotta love enyo

is there a way to install/run it on mac?

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