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Designing for various screen sizes is made easier through Palm’s development model and tools, which are obviously based on web technologies like CSS. With non-pixel units it’s quite easy to ensure widgets and text scale right. Apps can be built with Palm’s new ‘Enyo’ framework to scale a multi-pane tablet view to a simple one-column view on phones. Truly a ‘universal’ approach to developing applications.

I’m taking this to mean that you can develop a single app that will automatically behave like Twitter for iPad on a webOS tablet, and like the usual hierarchical view structure on a phone — which I think is awesome. I really wish Apple had done exactly this instead of the very simple split-view structure they pioneered (which works and has the advantage of being simple and consistent — to the point of not letting developers change the sidebar width — but is much less fun and functional than what Twitter does).

I wish I could justify beginning to learn the webOS SDK. Come on, people, buy HP phones.