Games aside, there's hardly anything on the App Store that couldn't be done in webOS. It's not just "local webpages" -- the SMS and phone apps are written in it

Games aside, there's hardly anything on the App Store that couldn't be done in webOS. It's not just "local webpages" -- the SMS and phone apps are written in it, after all. I think if the choice was between a third all-new alien SDK and luring developers in with HTML+JS, Palm made the right choice.