When WebOS and the Pre first launched it was indeed just HTML/Javascript applications (not entirely unlike the first iPhone which ran apps on the safari engine)

When WebOS and the Pre first launched it was indeed just HTML/Javascript applications (not entirely unlike the first iPhone which ran apps on the safari engine) Later Palm released a more capable dev kit that could do native code. "The Plug-In Development Kit (PDK) is a component of the HP webOS SDK that lets developers use C and C++ alongside the web technologies that power the SDK, and even mix them seamlessly within a single application." -- https://developer.palm.com/content/api/dev-guide/pdk/overview.html https://developer.palm.com/content/api/dev-guide/pdk/overvie...