Web development standards — HTML, CSS and JavaScript — are a front runner in the quest to provide an accessible development environment for Symbian. However, Web Runtime (WRT) has its limitations and, across the industry as a whole, is rather fragmented. Find out how Symbian hopes to address these issues in the latest developer section feature.
“The issue with WRT is that everyone has gone ‘wow, this is pretty cool, let’s create our own extensions’. As a result there are many variations developers have to deal with,” says Robert. “Ultimately, given that we are open source, my goal is to support as many APIs as possible. If a widget has been created for Palm WebOS, I hope Symbian will understand the packaging and the JavaScript extensions so that the widget can install and run with no porting.
