Ancestors

Written by Tobias Bernard on 2024-11-30 at 19:19

Doing some software archaeology with @jimmac today, looking at webOS on the Touchpad and Palm Pre.

It's very cool to see how far ahead of its time this was, and also how many elements from it survived in GNOME in some form! And of course, the multitasking is still unmatched by any more recent mobile platform :)

[#]webOS #palmPre #gnome

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Written by Tobias Bernard on 2024-11-30 at 19:24

A quick look at some of the core apps and in-app UI patterns, including Calendar and Photos.

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Toot

Written by Tobias Bernard on 2024-11-30 at 19:28

The spatial model is 😘👌

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Descendants

Written by Tobias Bernard on 2024-11-30 at 19:30

Browser tabs are also interesting.

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Written by Tobias Bernard on 2024-11-30 at 19:32

Top left app menu! Does this look familiar to anyone? 🙃

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Written by Tobias Bernard on 2024-11-30 at 19:34

What happens if you make a huuuuuuge stack of app cards?

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Written by Tobias Bernard on 2024-11-30 at 19:36

Dope spatial model, part 3

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Written by Tobias Bernard on 2024-11-30 at 19:39

Ever wonder where the GNOME Shell "just type" search thing comes from?

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Written by Tobias Bernard on 2024-11-30 at 19:42

Managed to get the Messages app to somewhat work. Not much to see, but it shows off a few more in-app design patterns.

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Written by Hylke 🍵 on 2024-11-30 at 19:45

@tbernard immediately recognised the @jimmac laugh in the background. read the beginning of this thread and yep. 😂

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Written by Alexandre Franke on 2024-11-30 at 22:30

@tbernard was this before the N900?

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Written by Will T on 2024-12-01 at 07:52

@afranke @tbernard contemporary with it: Palm Pre and N900 were launched a few months apart in 2009.

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Written by mausmalone on 2024-11-30 at 23:56

@tbernard I'm so glad to see Just Type get some love. I remember how easy it was on the Pre with webOS 2 to just flip open the phone and type what you want.

Behind the scenes all that file indexing that went into Just Type was available to all apps through a JS API. It goes against security practices now but every app then could fairly easily interface with all your music, photos, videos, emails, texts, etc ...

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Written by ada_magicat on 2024-11-30 at 20:30

@tbernard LineageOS' stock web browser actually does the same thing, but obviously it's still android so it has the same multitasking model besides that (no grouping)

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