Widgets: The S60 Web Run Time, what is it and how can I use it?
Posted by Stefan on Tuesday, November 27th, 2007 at 8:18 am under Nokia, Symbian
Starting with the next version of S60, 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2, a new technology called Widgets will be enabled. Widgets is a fancy way of saying you will be able to build applications using XHTML, CSS and JavaScript for S60. The web run time, the engine that powers the S60 browser, will be the enabler of the creation of widgets. Daniel Rocha from newlc takes us through a demo of how one can write widgets for S60 and goes into some detail about the technology and potential future use cases.
More information about Widgets can be found in episode 20 and 21 of the Voice of S60 podcast, this slideshow on SlideShare and this 45 minute video on Blip.tv.
November 27th, 2007 at 11:52 am
When’s FP2 out? I don’t suppose there’s any chance they’ll release an N82i or something that has FP2 on it?
November 27th, 2007 at 11:58 am
First FP2 devices are due out in the Q1 2008:
http://www.intomobile.com/2007/10/22/confirmed-first-s60-3rd-edition-feature-pack-2-devices-to-launch-in-q108.html
November 27th, 2007 at 9:08 pm
Check out this awesome widgets guide that I found!!!
http://widgetsforfree.blogspot.com
November 28th, 2007 at 6:53 am
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