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Windows Mobile 6.5 to support web apps
The original iPhone could do it. The Palm Pre, with its WebOS will do it. And it looks like Windows Mobile 6.5 will be able to do it, too. "It" is the ability to run web applications, and it's coming to Microsoft's newest mobile operating system as widgets.
A .widget is basically compressed assemblage of HTML, javascript, and image files. Reports indicate that the current build of WM 6.5 includes the two examples shown above - MSN Money and MSN Weather - as well as a Live Search widget.
It's an intelligent move by Microsoft, though likely to draw some criticism for copycatting. Still, with millions of web developers out there .widgets give them a simple way to deploy applications on Windows Mobile devices with their existing coding knowledge.
A .widget is basically compressed assemblage of HTML, javascript, and image files. Reports indicate that the current build of WM 6.5 includes the two examples shown above - MSN Money and MSN Weather - as well as a Live Search widget.
It's an intelligent move by Microsoft, though likely to draw some criticism for copycatting. Still, with millions of web developers out there .widgets give them a simple way to deploy applications on Windows Mobile devices with their existing coding knowledge.
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Jash Sayani said 2:05PM on 3-10-2009
Nice. They are learning something from Apple. However, websites will have so many versions... Computer version, WAP version, iPhone version, Windows Mobile version...... Optimised sites sometimes become an issues with multiple platforms. I think it should support the Apple WebKit apps so that all iPhne webapps can run on WinMo and developers can avoid one extra optimised site.
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Iain Iveson said 3:43PM on 3-10-2009
Nokia has been doing this for quite some time with its WRT (Web Runtime). Nokia widgets have access to the phone book, GPS and other phone features through a javascript API. I think the BBC iPlayer application runs on it.
Everyone always forgets about Nokia!
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KarlW said 7:02PM on 3-10-2009
Widgets or Gadgets?
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