WebOS is a computing research project started at the University of California, Berkeley to develop suitable software development abstractions for applications that run over a network. The abstractions it provides include:
- a filesystem that identifies data by uniform resource locators
- a ___location-independent resource naming system
- secure remote execution
- secure data access
- fail-safe transactions
Research on WebOS has continued at Duke University, the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Washington.
More generally, WebOS refers to a hypothetical future software platform that interacts with the user through a web browser and does not depend on any particular local operating system. Such predictions date to the mid-1990s, when Marc Andreesen predicted that Microsoft Windows was destined to become "a poorly debugged set of device drivers running Netscape Navigator." More recently attention has focused on rumors that Google might produce an application platform.
External links
- WebOS at Duke University
- GoogleOS? YahooOS? MozillaOS? WebOS? by Jason Kottke
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