<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>According to recent news WebOS may not be a topic for discussion soon (along with Palm)</span></div><div> </div><div>Raul Suarez<br><br></div><div>Technology consultant<br>Software, Hardware and Practices<br>_________________<br>Twitter: rarsamx<br>http://rarsa.blogspot.com/ <br>An eclectic collection of random thoughts<br><div style='font-size: 12pt; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", "times", serif'><div style='font-size: 12pt; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", "times", serif'><font size="2" face="Arial"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Chris Irwin <chris@chrisirwin.ca><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> KWLUG discussion <kwlug-disc@kwlug.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, August 18, 2011 7:52:32
PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [kwlug-disc] Google purchases Motorola (Mobile)?<br></font><br>On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 03:43:16PM -0400, unsolicited wrote:<br>> For example, the Palm, as I understand it, does not multi-task. But<br>> it can hold multiple tasks in various states. Then rotate among<br>> them, given appropriately behaved apps. (Let alone signals, etc.)<br>> Task switching is not multi-tasking.<br>> <br>> Multiple tasks do not simultaneously run. (Back to splitting hairs,<br>> nothing actual runs multiple tasks simultaneously, it just switches<br>> between them REALLY fast.)<br><br>My experience with WebOS is that non-focused apps do continue to work.<br>This can be illustrated by opening a browser to a web page, then switch<br>to another app. When you switch back, the browser will have fetched the<br>page.<br><br>The best-practices for palm's sdk supports this, indicating that
when<br>you've been minimized to a card, you should run "conservatively".<br><br>WebOS does not update the display for non-active cards, though, so the<br>repaint happens when you switch back. This could cause some confusion<br>about background tasks.<br><br>-- <br>Chris Irwin<br>e: <a ymailto="mailto:chris@chrisirwin.ca" href="mailto:chris@chrisirwin.ca">chris@chrisirwin.ca</a><br>w: <a href="http://chrisirwin.ca" target="_blank">http://chrisirwin.ca</a><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>kwlug-disc mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org" href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a><br><a href="http://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org" target="_blank">http://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org</a><br><br><br></div></div></div></div></body></html>