Mobile Cross-Platform Development: Palm Pre
How to port a W3C Widget to the Palm Pre - or How Palm implemented its own stuff for nearly everything.
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W3C Widgets elsewhere on the 'Net.
Part of Mobile.
2 December 2009
How to port a W3C Widget to the Palm Pre - or How Palm implemented its own stuff for nearly everything.
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1 December 2009
Despite the title this site is mostly about W3C Widgets and contains genuinely useful information. Pity it's all in PDFs, but such is life.
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31 October 2009
Good discussion of the difference between app stores, mobile websites, and widgets, with widgets taking the middle position between the other two.
An argument against apps I hadn't thought of yet: reinstalling them on a new phone or after a hard reset is a pain. Same goes for widgets, but at least you could beam them over via Bluetooth from your old phone to a new one.
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10 September 2009
The Microsoft documentation for building W3C Widgets. Differs slightly from the other systems, but that's to be expected with a spec that's not quite finished yet. Contains a few interesting ideas.
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15 June 2009
Stefan Kolb continues his series of tests of JavaScript libraries on mobile phones. This time he did the TaskSpeed tests on ten Nokia S60 phones.
Conclusion: Dojo again the fastest library; this time Prototype is the slowest.
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8 June 2009
Some information about the Microsoft widget system. Looks a lot like the W3C one, which is good.
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20 May 2009
Blackberry to support W3C Widgets in the future? Of course this article doesn't give technical details, but the inevitable figure with the boxes and arrows pointing anywhere does seem to sketch a widget context.
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14 May 2009
More information about the Opera/T-Mobile widget manager. Something that's not clearly explained is that this widget manager is only available for Windows Mobile.
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A simple and complete introduction to the docked mode of W3C Widgets.
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13 May 2009
Stefan Kolb, one of my co-workers at Vodafone, has conducted a selector performance test for seven JavaScript library versions in the Vodafone Widget Manager, which runs Opera Mobile, on ten different Symbian S60 phones.
For now it is clearly visible that some frameworks perform better than others in terms of DOM selection. By far the slowest framework in my tests across all devices was the YUI v2.7.0 framework. The fastest frameworks were the two version of the Dojo framework, with version 1.3.0 performing slightly better than version 1.2.3.
It is also clear from the results that the performance depends on the mobile device. The Nokia N73 was the slowest phone, no matter which framework was tested on that device. The fastest phone was the Nokia E66, closely followed by the Nokia N85.
Hopefully, the tested - well established - web frameworks will soon be optimized to perform better on mobile phones. After that, I am sure, they will be of great value for the mobile widget developer, just like they are for web developers today.
Obviously, we need many, many more performance tests before we can say which library is "best" on mobile phones. Still, today we've made a start.
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