PreCentral: Where HP's going with open source Enyo 2.0

[News Reporter]

This morning I had a meeting at HP's webOS campus with Enyo framework members Gray Norton and Kevin Schaaf and

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. Leading up to tomorrow's Enyo Hackathon, we talked a lot about what HP has accomplished with Enyo and where they hope to go with the open source application framework. (full disclosure: HP is paying for my flight and hotel for )

Enyo was first previewed to the public . The framework was designed to follow up on the fully web-based Mojo app framework and featured modularity as one of its hallmark features, while still staying true to its web tech roots. At the time Enyo was demoed at smaller smartphone sizes and a bigger tablet-like size, demonstrating the flexibility of the modular design. In February 2011 developers after the event.

A year later, following , HP made the decision to . Immediately, the open sourced Enyo - practically anything that supported HTML5 would support Enyo, and many mobile platforms additionally supported on-device web-based apps. that lasted several months, finally reaching the in just the past few weeks. The new version of Enyo is designed to run on all manner of devices and desktop web browsers of all stripes.