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[CM] webOS team releases abandoned interface redesign

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Title: Team behind webOS releases its abandoned interface redesign to the community
Author: Dante D'Orazio
Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2014 20:38:02 -0400
Link: http://www.theverge.com/2014/4/5/5585216/team-behind-webos-releases-mochi-redesign-open-source

[image 1]

Palm's innovative mobile operating system, webOS, was never a commercial
success[2], but the team behind it certainly had some great ideas. Now, long
after HP largely abandoned the operating system, the team is releasing one of
its most intriguing user interface ideas to the community for further work.
The project is known as Mochi, and we first revealed it earlier this year[3]
alongside some of very last ideas that the webOS team was working on before
HP scuttled its plans. The user interface overhaul introduced a cleaner,
"flat" design long before Apple and Google made similar moves, and it
included a feature that expanded "cards" so that you could swap in multiple
panes at once for multitasking, á la Snap in Windows 8.

The code and...

Continue reading…[4]

Links:
[1]: http://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/31201589/webos-lost-1-theverge-11_1020.0_standard_800.0.jpg (image)
[2]: http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/5/3062611/palm-webos-hp-inside-story-pre-postmortem (link)
[3]: http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/2/5264580/the-lost-secrets-of-webos (link)
[4]: http://www.theverge.com/2014/4/5/5585216/team-behind-webos-releases-mochi-redesign-open-source (link)

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[CM] webOS team releases abandoned interface redesign RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-06 19:13 +0000

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