Widgets allow people to customize Web content into smaller applications that allow users to remain up to date with the information they are interested in. Though widgets have been available on PCs for a while, we've only recently began seeing them on cell phones with third-party apps like WidSets or with widget-like services, like Alltel's Celltop.
Nokia today announced its support for widgets on the S60 platform, which according to Nokia will be the first mobile software platform that can create widgets using standard Web technologies. S60 on Nokia's Symbian operating system will also use Web Run-Time, a Web application development environment that creates widgets using Ajax, JavaScript, CSS and HTML. According to Nokia, Web Run-Time allows users to easily create widgets right on their handsets, or transfer the widgets from their computers to their cell phones.
Web Run-Time and widget support will be available as part of the S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2. Widget development tools, documentation and a software developer kit will be made available via Forum Nokia during the third quarter 2007.
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