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Originally Posted by ysss View Post
What does 'exact same code running on maemo and symbian' means?
Simply that it doesn't need manual porting work during the build phase, or that they're somehow binary compatible (like OSX with dual intel+ppc binary bundles)??
They could be using that web framework they were going on about some time back.

In a speculative case, the container for running the javascript/html/whatever could be some natively compiled qt client with an exposed API to system resources (files/sound/accelerometer/etc). If you mirror the client on many machines (regardless of the OS), then the same javascript code will run -- exactly how web browsers work today. The benefit is run-anywhere, easy to develop and test code. The cost is app performance (you won't likely see an PSX emu developed this way).

This is WILD speculation (none of it is real information), but it's a reasonable solution with some very large benefits.

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