Hot on the heels of last night’s release of webOS 1.3.5, Palm has released the Software Development Kit for the latest and greatest version of webOS. You can go read all the nitty gritty details here, but to our mind the best news is that the emulator can now receive keyboard shortcuts to simulate shaking and tilting – which means it will be a heckuva lot easier to develop games that involve tilting the phone.
Also improving those games, the "fastAccelerometer" API, which can "increase the frequency of accelerometer events from 4Hz to 30Hz." Previously, you could only get accelerometer data 4 times per second – not nearly good enough for proper control. Increasing that to 30 times per second will help a lot.
There’s plenty more here, including proper app placement in the media partition and some squashed bugs. Developers, go give it a go (unless you’re a 64-bit Windows user) and let us know if your life is changed.