The Palm Mojo Applications Framework – Web OS and web developers, together at last!

The new Web OS represents Palm (NSDQ: PALM)’s bid to retake the huge chunk of the smartphone market that it has lost to the likes of Nokia (NYSE: NOK), RIM (BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM)), and the iPhone over the years. Together with the newly announced Palm Pre smartphone, the Web OS offers a slick, gesture-based UI that’s at once intuitive and incredibly powerful.

The all-new Web OS, built on a Linux kernel, is designed to work intuitively with a capacitance touchscreen and invites the web-developer community to make native applications using web-languages like HTML and CSS. The Palm Web OS’s application framework – the Mojo Application Framework – is based on HTML5, CSS, and Javascript standards that web developers are likely already using.

Palm’s apparent aim with the Mojo Application Framework is to leverage the familiarity of web-development tools to create a diverse range of Web OS applications. Mojo allows developers to make use of devices services like mail, contacts, calendars, and finger gestures to create powerful applications using a familiar web-language. We’re looking to Palm to do big things in 2009!

Find out more about the Palm Mojo Application Framework here.

[Via: PhoneScoop]