Nokia Web Runtime
 

http://ajaxian.com/archives/nokia-we...ugin-available

The web is going increasingly mobile lately :)

Re: Nokia Web Runtime
 

Aha! That's it. It's not off-topic, BTW, as they've announced it for Maemo too, for example:

http://www.forum.nokia.com/Resources...ms/Maemo.xhtml

Of course, it says it'll be delivered in 2008. Ho hum.

More links:

• http://tabletblog.com/2008/06/widget...41603577256130
• http://www.nseries.com/index.html#l=...p,articles,414
• http://mg.pov.lt/maemo-irclog/%23mae...09-26T15:35:49

Interestingly, the interview with konttori seems to suggest we already have it. So, I expect it's been aborted :-(

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Could it have been built for Elephanta and now been shifted to Fremantle?

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I don't think Nokia would cancel this - after all, it provides developers with a fairly easy way to create apps that work for both Symbian and Maemo devices. Makes too much sense to just be abandoned I'd say.

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It probably isn't abandoned, only late...

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The infra is actually in place. You should be able to get timeless to help you guys setup a wrt applet for home screen. The support is there for pretty much all forms of wrt plugins. Basically point being that the applets are using the browser daemon to do the rendering and then push the content to the applet. Anyway should be relatively easyish to do once you know what buttons to push / what code to write.

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Aaargh, didn't expect this type of runtime :)

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Web widgets are nice, but what I really miss on the tablet is the ability to embed a (hildonized) browser component in applications written in high level languages such as Python. Currently it is possible to compile and use libgtkmozembed for maemo, but that results in a non-hildonized browser component (no drag-scrolling, no on-screen keyboard for html forms).

Any chance Nokia is going to support that in the upcoming release? Should I file a bug for it?

I'm sorry if I'm hijacking this thread here, but it's an issue that has bugging me for some time now, and I never knew exactly where to turn to - the Maemo bugzilla, the browser guys, or the PyMaemo folks :o

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It s a bit like Palm Pre with his html5 local storage and webkit.

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Agreed with many of the points above, I view Nokia's Web Runtime technology as a precursor to Palm's webOS development environment (from what little we know of it) and similar to Apple's Dashboard widgets; Microsoft's Vista widgets etc.

Hopefully it'll make a proper arrival in fremantle (and was, as sjgadsby says, targetted for elephanta). Hopefully webOS will also raise the game for writing relatively large apps in these multi-platform, runtime technologies.

@kontorri: certainly it wouldn't be hard to use a GtkMozEmbed or equivalent in a home applet (I suppose); but is the technology in place, in Diablo, for running Nokia Web Runtime widgets (or whatever the term is), using a similar/same API as the S60 variant?

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I notice that prism is available in the Ubuntu repositories. It isn't exactly embedded, but it is a stripped-down browser window designed for web apps...

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browserd is running all the time... That's actually the point.

Re: Nokia Web Runtime
 

Thanks, Bundyo. Of course.

I'd hit the "Thanks" button, but you mistakenly thought this was an off-topic thread.

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It is off-topic ;) I don't see web runtime widely adopted at least on the current tablets. Web widgets are heavy no matter if the daemon is running all the time or not.

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Bundyo, i think it s doable on current device,take a look at webkit. The result is more and more better on our device.

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Well, you can ask more directly from timeless, but the infra should be in place to be able to handle yahoo, nokia, dashboard, google and some other widgets as well. I think the missing component is the widget installer (which should be pretty easy to make if you know what to do - ask timeless).

Re: Nokia Web Runtime
 

"Web Runtime" is one of those terms that might tell different things to different people. As an example, for S60 it means http://www.s60.com/life/thisiss60/s6...res/webruntime

Please define "that".

It always helps to have a focused dialog and get a convenient notification as soon as it's officially resolved.

By the way, have you tried asking about a possible Maemo Web Runtime to your preferred Internet search engine?

Re: Nokia Web Runtime
 

Interesting stuff...

Just for fun i pointed my N810 at http://widsets.mobi/library it's not what you would call functional but you can get something showing up on the home screen.

Now to work out how to uninstall these things...

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And this is what we're talking about here. "Web Runtime" in the Nokia trademarkey sense.

Yes, see the links above. Most relevant are the Forum Nokia and Urho's interview ones.

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Those of you interested on what comes next should have a look to http://www.nokia.com/imaginemaemo more frequently. At the moment there is a position open for a (Senior) SW Engineer, Web Runtime SDK.

Of course this is no guarantee of having such runtime in an official release but if there are positions open...

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héhé :)

Still in your office ? not in teleworking , right ?

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Hah, uninstalling the .wgz... that's a very good question