[kwlug-disc] Google purchases Motorola (Mobile)?

[Chris Irwin]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 03:43:16PM -0400, unsolicited wrote:
> For example, the Palm, as I understand it, does not multi-task. But
> it can hold multiple tasks in various states. Then rotate among
> them, given appropriately behaved apps. (Let alone signals, etc.)
> Task switching is not multi-tasking.
> 
> Multiple tasks do not simultaneously run. (Back to splitting hairs,
> nothing actual runs multiple tasks simultaneously, it just switches
> between them REALLY fast.)

My experience with WebOS is that non-focused apps do continue to work.
This can be illustrated by opening a browser to a web page, then switch
to another app. When you switch back, the browser will have fetched the
page.

The best-practices for palm's sdk supports this, indicating that when
you've been minimized to a card, you should run "conservatively".

WebOS does not update the display for non-active cards, though, so the
repaint happens when you switch back. This could cause some confusion
about background tasks.

-- 
Chris Irwin
e:  chris at chrisirwin.ca
w: http://chrisirwin.ca
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