[clug] lightweight tool for creating PDA-style Apps

[Robert Edwards]

steve jenkin wrote:
> Daniel Pittman wrote on 4/8/09 11:27 PM:
>> David Cottrill <cottrill.david at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> ajaxterm, just sayin'
>>
>>         Daniel
>>
>> Why bother leaving the browser?
> 
> had lunch with a friend today & back in his office he fired up Google
> Chrome browser... Impressive. Sometime has to become multi-platform.
> 
> Talking to him, I realised Daniel is right:
> 
>  Why leave the browser??
> 
> The problem/design becomes:
>  - select DB/file backend
>  - select scripting lang. for backend delivering HTTP
>  - select off-line/remote-sync library/tools
>  - use J/script, CSS etc in Browser as UI
>  - implement functions incrementally
>  - Happy User :-)
> 
> Leverages what works & you can find most everywhere.
> Maybe in time could move to other platforms.
> 
> Gmail and gCal (?) could be mail/calendar...
> But no rush to decide. Incremental devel.
> 
> Thanks to everyone for suggestions and not being put out by noise on the
> list.
> I've finally Seen the Bleeding Obvious :-)
> 
> s

Sounds good. Any example apps that can do this on a PDA? In particular,
a Symbian O/S based mobile phone?

How does the web browser communicate with the script - using a TCP/IP
connection to localhost, or am I missing something more obvious?

Cheers,

Bob Edwards.