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Don't expect HP's webOS 2.0 to be tied to an HVGA screen for long --
come "early 2011," the company will introduce a number of "really
interesting new form factors," including tablets and phones. That was
the message driven home at Palm's Developer Day this year, according
to PreCentral's Dieter Bohn, and the software that's going to make
that shift possible is a little something called Enyo. Picking up
where Ares left off, Enyo is a Javascript app framework with native
hardware acceleration and faster app load times (they're allegedly
down to one second now), but the part we think you'll be most
interested in is the promise of apps that natively scale to multiple
aspect ratios. HP's Scott Miles demoed it earlier this week by playing
around with a tiny, single-pane portrait email application in the
desktop version of Chrome... and then maximized the browser window to
reveal a fully-functioning three-pane landscape layout suited for a
large tablet screen. Representatives stressed that the email app was a
proof of concept, but Enyo's here to stay, replacing the earlier Mojo
starting in 2011 and slated to be available in early 2011 via
developer SDK. Get introduced to Enyo in a video after the break, and
skip ahead to that email demo at 15:55 if you're running late for your
rockstar developer meetup.
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