In an effort to help developers make more widgets for its platform, Nokia unveiled three tools for existing developers’ applications: Nokia Web Runtime Extension for Adobe Dreamweaver, Nokia WRT plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio, and the updated version of WRT plug-in 2.0 for Aptana Studio. Moreover, the Finnish giant announced that within the next 30 days, they will localize the WRT Extension for Adobe Dreamweaver and the Nokia WRT plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio, offering multi-language support for developer tools for the first time. A total of eight languages will be supported — including traditional and simplified Chinese, English, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian and Spanish.
As a result, developers using any of the mentioned applications above will be able to easily port or extend their content to the mobile channel through mobile widget apps and eventually add their creation to the Ovi Store.
Those not familiar should know that Nokia WRT widgets provide mobile users instant access to customizable information or tools drawn in real-time from the Internet. Some of the popular widgets include breaking news headlines, stock-market tickers, social network status updates, flight arrival schedules, localized daily weather and more. The platform relies on Nokia’s Webkit-based S60 browser to render the content.
Additional information can be found on a dedicated page on Forum Nokia’s website, and you see which Nokia phones support WRT widgets from this page.