[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Maemo widgets ala Tiger

[From: Brad Clements]

Tiger widgets  have become popular, and there's a lot of them.

They're just html, javascript and a special javascript object that allows the 
javascript to access certain environment settings and controls.

I'm wondering if a similar kind of thing would be useful for maemo.

So, perhaps locally loaded ".htmg"  files could be launched within the 
browser, but they could:

a) get access to dbus

b) run in a non-full screen windows, like 

  1. a task area indicator

  2. a tray indicator or symbol

c) be able to run w/o a window (just javascript, perhaps getting access to 
note_infoprint or note_dialog

d) use svg-tiny and other stuff

e) the browser component itself and "widgets" should be embeddable in 
other applications


So, this would give us simple, low overhead non-C development for the 
masses. 

Is this kind of thing already planned, possible, impossible?



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