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By: Symbian.org WRT Widget Helps You Keep Up | Symbian-Guru.com

Symbian.org WRT Widget Helps You Keep Up | Symbian-Guru.com — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:21:24 +0000

[...] David Wood (who we interviewed previously) posted about WRT widgets, asking for suggestions as to what widgets you’d like to see. One answer that intrigued him was for a Symbian.org widget, which would allow Symbian users to [...]

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Symbian on Symbian « Symbian Blog — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:35:06 +0000

[...] was one the themes of an earlier posting I made, A new software journey. In that posting, I posed a question: What suggestions do readers have, for widgets that I can [...]

By: detronizator

detronizator — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:51:28 +0000

@David Durant:
> If WRT now supports a Google Gears like storage system…
I REALLY hope the entire S60WebKit framework is gonna be open for good: I’ll be happy to extend A LOT the Javascript DOM to enable developers with stuff like (or better?) than Google Gears.

By: Gavin

Gavin — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:50:17 +0000

I disagree that Nokia made a mess of the WRT releasing. It’s surely better that technology that allows the creation of widgets that interact with the web be available now for devices already out there in peoples pockets and evolve from there.

Sure, it would have been better if everything had been ready in the first release, but that’s normal software development for you, isn’t it?

Also, for those not internal to Symbian and unable to access the resources DW is using, there’s more than enough information and example widgets to get you started on the Forum Nokia website!

By: cs

cs — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 06:50:36 +0000

Joseph, that’s great – in that case I am thinking of creating a meta web-widget – a web widget for easily creating other useful web-widgets.

By: Joseph Asmar

Joseph Asmar — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:26:37 +0000

To CS,
Correct me if i am wrong,
It is completley possible to create a wrt1.0 on the device.
That is what i understand.

By: David Durant

David Durant — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:53:43 +0000

*nods* – Don’t get me wrong, I’m a big fan of automated crash reporting but when you have a 100% reproducible non-crashing error, such as I found on my old E61, it would be great to have a way not only to report it but also to track the fix.

Of course people reporting valid bugs should get t-shirts, etc…

By: cs

cs — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:00:16 +0000

To David Durant:
> “Of course perhaps the most useful thing would be a user-friendly way
> for *consumers* to be able to raise defects on the Foundation Bugzilla
> system (automatically flags up potential duplicates). Getting more
> end-users to submit issues is a great way for ‘many eyes’ to find
> bugs.”

The most useful and user-friendly way of reporting bugs for regular users is probably the invisible (or nearly invisible) way. Bug reporting should be as automated and easy as possible and special software, such as automatic crash reporters, ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_reporter ) should be available for regular users who wish to easily report bugs, such as crashes, etc.

By: David Durant

David Durant — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:28:38 +0000

Of course perhaps the most useful thing would be a user-friendly way for *consumers* to be able to raise defects on the Foundation Bugzilla system (automatically flags up potential duplicates). Getting more end-users to submit issues is a great way for ‘many eyes’ to find bugs.

Same goes for an interface to the RSS feeds and forums of course. A “Symbian Foundation” app if you will…

By: Ash

Ash — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:14:23 +0000

Try making a Spotify widget, I hear they just opened their API. http://developer.spotify.com/en/libspotify/overview/