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WRT – Another arrow or killer weapon?
Published by Richard Bloor at 8:41 UTC, September 16th 2009
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.
News Discussion
the diversity of widget engines and the features ans APIs they support is becoming increasingly muddled.
i am doing some research in this area and i'd love to see the poll mentioned in the article:
| a recent poll on the Symbian Foundation forum that started with a list of ten web runtime environments, but resulted in a flood of emails that could, according to Robert, have extended the list to over twenty. |
thanks!
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