HP, Palm and the New webOS 2.0
Whenever a company has a major shakeup (like a change of ownership), it tends to set off a chain reaction throughout operations, affecting everything from marketing to sales, to development, and yes, even testing.
Case in point: Palm, which was recently acquired by tech giant HP, will continue to make the Palm Pre and other devices we all know and love. That much has stayed the same. But as we’ve seen from the new webOS2.0, that’s about the only thing that hasn’t changed.
Evidence can be found at PreCentral.net, which as the latest specs from the new mobile operating system. There’s plenty of new features that developers and testers should familiarize themselves with – so let’s start from the beginning.
- Palm’s multitasking ‘card’ metaphor is getting a refresh with Stacks
- Universal Search is getting majorly beefed up with ‘Quick Actions,’ will be opened to developers, and rebranded as Just Type
- Apps can have custom Touchstone at-a-glance views with Exhibition
- Synergy is opening up to developers
- HTML5 and Javascript support is much improved
- Hybrid PDK/SDK apps will be fully supported
Stacks
A new multi-tasking feature known as “Stacks” will enable users to quickly sort through applications in use. Interestingly, developers will not have to worry about about enabling the functionality themselves. Rather, the operating system will automatically sort them based on prior activities. So expect this feature to consume a greater amount of testing’s time, as opposed to that of developers.

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