I am honored to introduce the Web Simulator for its public release on 01.org. The Web Simulator is a lightweight mobile application development and testing tool for web application developers. It simulates device API implementation on different platforms, so that web applications with device APIs can be easily tested without a real platform device.

The Web Simulator is designed to have these features:

• Runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X platform.
• Can simulate different platform APIs. Currently we support the majority (~90%) of the Tizen 1.0 Web APIs.
• Enables running and debugging a web application, loaded from either local file system or from a web server.
• Provides various device panels to support event interaction with applications.

The Web Simulator architecture and code are inherited from the Ripple-UI. Currently, we have implemented most of the Tizen Device 1.0 API Specification.