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If you look at the Palm WebOS screen shots at CrunchGear, you will notice an Android like look. Remember IPC Binder concepts, technology behind IDL, came from Palm originally. The other itme you will notice is that its a Webkit render engine and probably supports the w3c web wdiget through a plugin.
This is also why Sprint held off on Andorid as they want their Android to be like this device. How do I know Palm is using a webkit js bridge? At this point its a guess in that the w3c web wdiegts becasue of security models of browser cannto access device functions such as GPS. But by having the webkit js bridge you could embedd webkit in an applicatin and thus be under applicaitn security guidelines and protection for accessing device features such as GPS in a consumer protected fashion and yet also look like just another native application or web widget.
Obviously getting a hold of a SDK and emulator will allow me to confirm later.
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