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Steve Jobs is giving his keynote at Apple's World Wide Developers conference now. Very interesting how they are positioning themselves with respect to 3rd party app development for the iPhone. We'll have to see the details, but Steve says"...you can write amazing Web 2.0 apps that work exactly like apps on the iPhone...." So that just means javascript and HTML being presented by the Safari engine. I can imagine some people scoffing at this, but the approach might work. It all depends on the slickness of the integration (will they really look like native apps, or will it just feel like a webpage?) Supposedly you can "make calls, send e-mails, google maps, etc" from inside your web app. So there are at least some special hooks you can access from javascript. Hopefully there are enough cool things you can access to really make some useful programs. My guess is that there will be a lot of complaining, but then this will actually work out very well in the end.
I'm not sure if it's just me, or if other people are feeling this too, but javascript used to just be an annoyance. Now it's one of the most important tools.