Developers! Hie thee to the Palm Developer Center to download the SDK for webOS 1.4. What’s new? We’re so glad you asked:
- webOS now incorporates WebKit 4, which features enhanced CSS support and numerous other improvements.
- The webOS implementation of the HTML 5 Media API has been updated, bringing closer conformance to the specification, and improvements to audio performance.
- The Camera API has been extended to let an application initiate video capture, in addition to image capture.
- The V8 JavaScript engine used in webOS has been updated.
You can hit up the full set of webOS 1.4 SDK release notes for the nitty gritty details. We’re pleased to see that "Audio playback latency has been significantly reduced," and also glad that any app can "initiate video capture" – in fact it looks like there are enough changed in the Media API that any developers who use media should take a look at the transition notes. (Now if only that Media API included access to the Microphone….)
via the Palm Developer Center Blog, thanks to slp15 for the tip!