>> Thanks for this review.  Unfortunate that 'Browser Control' is not
>> robust enough.  Guess we wait for WRT.

> Looks like our "competitors" have settled for it:

> http://github.com/rhomobile/rhodes/tree/95c3b691d1608e8ef17a5c06ec15d...

> http://rhomobile.com

> Rhomobile combines embedded Ruby (not just Javascript) + Browser UI.
> It support "all" smartphones via JRuby and Ruby C implementations.
> It's dual licensed under GPL - you need to pay for commercial
> releases.

> Cheers,
> Mikko

>> Dave Oliver

>> On Feb 18, 7:02 pm, Mikko Ohtamaa <sna...@gmail.com> wrote:

>> > Hi,

>> > 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

>> >http://www.twinapex.com