I've just updated my mobile phone firmware and I find that Nokia's widget platform is available - though it's early days. The exciting thing here is that their Web Run-Time (WRT) allows widgets based on XHTML, CSS, Javascript and Ajax. They claim you can port existing Widgets to Web Run-Time. This should allow the addition of mobile widgets to the universal widget platform. Developers should be able to offer their widgets for the mobile platform without rebuilding them. Interesting times indeed.
Forum Nokia - Widgets
One of the most exciting things about Web Run-Time is that it allows web developers, designers, and anyone else for that matter to create exciting Internet experiences for mobile users in a matter of hours or days. Whether you simply need to provide a one-click interface to your web service or you want to mash-up information from varies source to create new value-add you can.Technically, Web Run-Time adds a Web application runtime environment to the popular Web Browser for S60 that allows S60 devices to run widgets. Web Run-Time widgets, just as on desktops widgets, are small applications developed using standards-based Web technologies, such as XHTML, CSS, JavaScript™, and Ajax. In fact, you can port existing desktop widgets to Web Run-Time with very little effort – and you can use your existing tools.
S60 Platform SDKs for Symbian OS, for C++
S60 Platform SDKs for Symbian OS, for C++A beta version of the S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 2 SDK is now available to download. Among the new features in this SDK is a fully working Web Run-Time environment. Port your cool widgets from desktop environments such as Yahoo! and Apple Dashboard to the S60 platform or reach out to users on the go with a cool widget to front-end of your web site.
Remote Device Access
Remote Device Access (RDA) is a service that allows developers to test their mobile applications and services remotely on various Nokia devices based on Symbian OS. The main features of the service are remote controlling a device, installing and running applications, transfering files, and analyzing log files in real-time. RDA is an Internet-based solution and the basic requirements for using the service are a Forum Nokia user account, a standard Web browser, and Java Web Start (comes typically with JRE; version 5.0 or newer is required). Usage is free of charge for all Forum Nokia members.
Resource information: Web Run-Time API Reference
This is the API reference for writing Web Run-Time (WRT) widgets for S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 2. In this document you will find a description of all the functionality available to WRT widgets. WRT widgets are small Web applications developed using familiar industry standards such as HTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and Asynchronous JavaScript™ and XML (AJAX).
Resource information: Porting Apple Dashboard Widgets to S60
Learn how to port widgets built for Apple’s Dashboard to the S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 2 Web Run-Time (WRT) platform. Step-by-step examples take you through the process of converting Dashboard-specific features to the WRT mobile domain. Complete examples with full source code are provided in a separate ZIP file delivered within this documentation package.
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