> We have made some experiements with Nokia Series 60 "Browser Control"
> component. Basically I think we know  what it would take to port
> PhoneGap to S60 and I know want to share this (so that no one needs to
> bang head to a wall again).

> There are two ways control the browser in S60: Browser Control and
> application overlay. The application overlay opens a new browser
> window on the top of your application. You cannot customize the
> browser UI, the options menu or anything else, so I think this is not
> a good approach because of the lack of control.

> Then there is Browser Controlhttp://www.forum.nokia.com/info/sw.nokia.com/id/47d8a7fe-768c-44e5-bc...
> which is "the right way" to embed
> WebKit in your application. You have total control over the surrouding
> UI. But looks like it the Browser Control itself is not the most
> robust piece of software and tends to have uncatchable crashes in
> various situations (page does not load, the page load is interrupted)
> and is stable enough only for offline applications.

> Also, we lack something like stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString in
> the public API, so we cannot feed any data from the phone to the
> Javascript easily. However, it is possible for the shell application
> to have native code to listen to localhost socket for which Javascript
> connects using AJAX requests. Kuneri's KuneriLite does exactly this
> for Flash Lite.

> The third option is just wait 5 years when Nokia device base is
> satured by Series 60 fifth edition device which supports Nokia's Web
> Run-Time 1.1. WRT is Nokia's proprietary, closed, PhoneGap like
> platform.

> http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/Category:Web_Runtime_(WRT)

> Some Nokia Series 60 devices support Web Run-Time 1.0 with an software
> update, but version 1.0 lacks all "PhoneGap abilities" like GPS. Both
> WRT technologies allow capsulating web application to installable
> Series 60 packages. Nokia doesn't seem to be keen on backporting WRT
> 1.1 to older devices, so this technology has currently near-zero
> market base.

> I think we are not pursuiting Series 60 very actively anymore, unless
> we got a customer case for it. We'll just wait that WRT 1.1 is
> widespread enough and make a PhoneGap adapter for it.

> Some experiemental Python code:

> https://code.launchpad.net/~jussi-toivola/pys60community/browserbranch

> Cheers,
> Mikko

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