Palm unveils "Project Ares" webOS developer tool

Ever since Palm announced its webOS system earlier in the year, the company has been continually working out its approach for application development for the device. With the App Catalog in beta for customer use, and the Mojo SDK available for developers to build applications, whilst Palm may not yet be rivalling Apple's "there's an app for that" campaign the company is certainly working to provide a far more open developer environment than its Cupertino rival.

Today sees the introduction of Project Ares: an open beta of an IDE for building Palm applications that - get this - runs entirely in your web browser. It even offers drag-and-drop interface building, code editing and a debugger for rooting out bugs in your code. Given that from the browser it integrates with any local installation of the webOS SDK for deployment to your Pre or Pixi, and Project Ares allows you to build an application without a multi-gigabyte SDK download, it's a mighty impressive technology.

Project Ares is available as a beta to all webOS developers via the Palm developer website, and requires Safari, Chrome or Firefox to run.
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