Protofy – The art of Prototyping

WidgetPad describes itself as :

“collaborative development environment for developers to develop fully-interactive, stand-alone, downloadable SmartPhone applications in HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript.”

This is a wonderful initiative to share and modify already built code. I hope they reach a level where all of these components can be bundled into a framework library like Dojo. You might say that there are libraries such as JQTouch which are already out there. But I found that the CSS based animations are aimed solely at the iPhone and iPod touch. Android devices such as G1 had much trouble rendering the swipe and slide animations.

Interestingly the 3D photo example using HTML5 and JavaScript makes the Iphone slower reminding that its not only plugins but embedded manufacturer supported technologies can also slow down when the limits are tested.  Only toggling the screen lock would un-freeze mobile safari out of its task in rendering the wall.