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Widgets: One more step to simplicity...

There's no doubt that widgets still remain in the spotlight. It was not so long ago when Nokia WRT plug-ins for Adobe Dreamweaver , Microsoft Visual Studio and Aptana Studio were released (IMHO, these represent about 80%-90% of the web development environments, so it was a...

Location-aware browsing on mobiles

Natural way of using location-based services (especially maps and navigation) on our mobiles is to use dedicated applications like Nokia Maps, Google Maps for S60, etc. Such applications are written in native C++ and have access to AGPS, wi-fi, network/cellid information, and other technologies...

S60 5th Edition: widgets and security

When I first heard about S60 Platform Services enabled widgets I started to ask myself about security. The first thought was, " I'll have to sign new widgets with something similar to Java Verified or Symbian Signed ". Such solution wouldn't be great for many reasons (killing...

S60 5th Edition: enhancing widgets... Let's get widgetized!

As you probably know, S60 5th Edition brings WRT 1.1 with support for S60 Platform Services through JavaScript Service APIs. Of course, the new Web Runtime environment is backward-compatible, so widgets created for WRT 1.0 run normally with WRT 1.1 (but you should take touch UI or...

Are mobile browsers ready for full web?

Looking from developer's perspective, developing for mobiles is not always that easy. If you're mobile web developer, you always have to test your work on many mobile browsers. The Mobile Web Test Suites Working Group has released a set of tests that assess the compatibility of mobile...

Shorten your long URLs

Long URLs are difficult to remember and not easy to enter into your mobile device (especially if you don't have QWERTY keyboard like in Nokia E90/E70/E61(i) or external bluetooth keyboard). However, there are various online services that shorten long URLs (for example TinyURL or SnipURL). ...