Protopage is lovely. When I see such fine examples of simplicity and style I am really amazed. It is a web desktop, allowing you to have various “widgets” arranged on your screen. If they had an easy way of developing third-party widgets…

Would be fun to do something similar with Morfik. Hmm…

Richard MacManus has an interesting article about “WebOS market review” on his blog on ZDNet. Beyond GoogleOS he mentions several WebOS initiatives (XIN, YouOS, EyeOS, Orca, Goowy, Fold). To my surprise Morfik is not in the list! His article has also been Slashdotted and the comments on both sites are interesting:  most readers are confused about what WebOS is at all and whether it has any future. This is quite normal as we are at the very begining of the WebOS era but also indicates that some educational efforts should be in order form the WebOS vendor companies and from us “visionaries” :-). And of course, one or two killer apps that would establish the market and would make front page news…

Today I had an enlightening experience. As I complained a couple of days ago, @Sweeper 0.8 (my Morfik Mine Sweeper clone) was dead slow when switching into Intermediate or Expert mode due to a lot of control demolitions/creations going on in the background. So I decided that some optimization was in order and today just wanted to look into doing this when (almost by coincidence) I discovered that the speed was much-much better (almost palatable for even a maximalist) than I originally experienced. What gives?

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