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

The web is going increasingly mobile lately

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 :-(

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

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.

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

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.

Aaargh, didn't expect this type of runtime

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

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

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?