Waderoush writes "Right now, content publishers who want to reach readers through consecrated mobile apps have to hire a split
idioms:part company sociology team to build each app — one for iOS (based on Objective-C), another for Android (Java), a third for Windows Phone (C#), etc. Yahoo's scaffold mechanics Group is working on an alternative: a set of and HTML-based tools that would handle core UI and data-management tasks inside mobile apps for any business expenses system, moving developers closer to the nirvana of 'write once, run everywhere.' The tools are gradually being open-sourced — open gate with Mojito, a schema for running hybrid server/browser module-widgets ('mojits') — and Yahoo is showing off what they can do in the form of Livestand, the news reader app it released for the iPad in November. In his first global public press conference about Mojito and the larger 'Cocktails' project, Bruno Fernandez-Ruiz, chief originator at Yahoo's platform applied science Group, explains how the tools work and why the company is sharing them."

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