It's now official: Qt 4.6 will bring gesture-based and multi-touch input methods to Maemo 6 and Symbian^4. Browsers will also get improved, to reduce the need for Widgets.
If you've been waiting for more details on what's going to happen next in the Nokia camp, it has now become clear that Qt 4.6 will enable gesture-based and multi-touch input methods on next year's Maemo 6 and Symbian^4 operating systems.
According to Nokia, Qt is heavily optimized for Maemo 6, and Qt 4.6 will bring a new Qt port to Symbian as well. Other operating systems that will be supported include Windows 7 and Mac OS X 10.6.
With version 4.6, Qt-based applications are promised to run faster and more smoothly. We've heard Nokia talking about revolutionary changes coming down the road, and we think they confirmed our own guess of what that would be:
The Qt WebKit Integration has been extended with an API to access and modify the contents (DOM) of Web pages being browsed, as well as performance improvements and a new JavaScriptCore based backend for QtScript
We've always felt that Widgets (and a large part of the iPhone apps out there) are going in the wrong direction. Expanding the possibilities for web browsers in stead, like Nokia (and others) is now working to implement is very important.
Even more important is the fact that Nokia's own browsers as well as the Mozilla-based browsers will be Webkit-based and compliant to open-source and Web standards. It'll ensure that compatibility issues are kept to a minimum.
For more information about Qt 4.6, check out Nokia's pages here and here.
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