06 June 2009
Symbian on Symbian Widget
Symbian.org Website On Your Phone
 Increasingly, HTML and associated web technologies will be the tools used to create compelling applications and services for Symbian-powered devices.
Mobile web widgets will become more and more prevalent and more powerful and it won’t be necessary to tangle with C++! Widgets are built with standard open-web technology and its code is based on the HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
Anyway, Ivan Litovski, Technical Expert in the Technical Communications team, has done an excellent job by creating lightweight widget that allows people to access the Symbian website (Forums, Wiki, Blogs and Bugzilla ) from their Symbian device on a simpler and faster way without even needing to go through an internet browser.
Once you start the widget, you’ll be prompted for your symbian.org username and password. If you don’t already have one, you’ll be able to register.
The homepage of the application shows you a list of options. The list is growing all the time, so it might be different by the time you try it. One of the options takes you into the wiki, showing a list of the articles that have been recently added or modified.
The next screen demonstrate viewing the list of forums, and then drilling down into one particular forum:
The final screenshots show the list of blog postings.
Clearly there’s lots to explore!
A wgz file is essentially a zip file, containing all the files needed when the widget runs so in case you are intrensting in source code all you need to do is to use a zip program to look inside the widget.
WTF is Widget?! I guess you're familiar with them from the desktop. Small, focused Web applications that are easy to install and use. Perfect for the small screen. Nokia has now extended the S60 browser engine to behave as a runtime platform in its own right.
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