If the Browser simply supports WebKit, then I also see little context with mobile technologies so far.
Unless of course it is meant primarily to run on Mobile devices ??

Wayne

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Hi Wayne,

Thanks for the update. At least the WebKit4SWT browser I also noticed.
So is that primarily an emulator for Widgets and WebApps or should it run also on actual devices?

If you haven't come across the Vodafone approach (actually they have at least 2, and for some areas JME still seems high on their agenda ;-)
I hope, this may also help your research.

Werner

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Following is a msg I posted to the blinki maillist last week. Since not everyone follows that list I'm reposting it here.
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Hi All,

I'm excited to finally be able to put some energy into the Blinki project. I realize the project has been idle for quite sometime. That is behind us now and we are moving forward. Before sharing a couple of details about upcoming Blinki activities I would like to reflect for a moment on the growing interest in mobile web and in general the rapid recognition of the role HTML5 and the smartphone browser are playing in changing mobile use patterns. A few cool major developments include:

- Google announcing that mobile web is at the heart of its mobile strategy
- adoption of the WebKit engine continues to grow as more and more smartphones in the dev pipeline are announcing plans to ship with it
- growing disillusionment with the AppStore; Google claims the AppStores are temporary (Do you agree?)

Ok enough reflection. So what's up with Blinki you may ask?

The first bit of news is we are preparing to OSS our WebKit4SWT codebase next week. We had hoped to do this well before now but had a couple of murphy's law incidences that have held us up. While I have worked with and followed Eclipse closely since its initial OSS, I have not been through the IP process. So this will be a learning process for the team and me. I'll post more details as we get that codebase ready for the IP process.

The second development is mobile web framework research that Greg Amerson and I are conducting. So far we have been working with PhoneGap to get 1st hand knowledge of its strengths and weaknesses. We plan to look at several other similar frameworks as background research for Blinki. We will be sharing our findings as they become available. If you have experience with any of the PhoneGap-like frameworks we welcome you input.

Wayne

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Following is a msg I posted to the blinki maillist last week. Since not everyone follows that list I'm reposting it here.
---------------------
Hi All,

I'm excited to finally be able to put some energy into the Blinki project. I realize the project has been idle for quite sometime. That is behind us now and we are moving forward. Before sharing a couple of details about upcoming Blinki activities I would like to reflect for a moment on the growing interest in mobile web and in general the rapid recognition of the role HTML5 and the smartphone browser are playing in changing mobile use patterns. A few cool major developments include:

- Google announcing that mobile web is at the heart of its mobile strategy
- adoption of the WebKit engine continues to grow as more and more smartphones in the dev pipeline are announcing plans to ship with it
- growing disillusionment with the AppStore; Google claims the AppStores are temporary (Do you agree?)

Ok enough reflection. So what's up with Blinki you may ask?

The first bit of news is we are preparing to OSS our WebKit4SWT codebase next week. We had hoped to do this well before now but had a couple of murphy's law incidences that have held us up. While I have worked with and followed Eclipse closely since its initial OSS, I have not been through the IP process. So this will be a learning process for the team and me. I'll post more details as we get that codebase ready for the IP process.

The second development is mobile web framework research that Greg Amerson and I are conducting. So far we have been working with PhoneGap to get 1st hand knowledge of its strengths and weaknesses. We plan to look at several other similar frameworks as background research for Blinki. We will be sharing our findings as they become available. If you have experience with any of the PhoneGap-like frameworks we welcome you input.

Wayne

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It looks a bit like Blinki's more or less dead or inactive.
3 new messages, the last one end of June.

Well maybe everybody went on a 2-3 month vacation ?;-)

Here's something I came across during a Dublin conference last week:
http://widget.vodafone.com/dev/

It looks like a rather good match to what this project said it wanted to archive.
No native apps of any kind, more WebApps or "Widgets" as those are also just a combination or HTML, XML with CSS, JavaScript and a couple of other (W3C) standards.

Furthermore, Vodafone got support for a whole lot of S60 based devices already, but doesn't outrule iPhone support for those in future. Blinki at least proposed to target the iPhone first, so the 2 ideas seem to complement each other. Plus Vodafone wishes to get this more standardized than they already see it, and at least with JavaME (and I believe also parts of Eclipse Mobile/Embedded) they are also involved in standard organizations like the JCP.

This could be a (Red) ray of light to get Blinki start blinking its lifeline ?!;-)

Good Luck,
Werner

Ok enough reflection. So what's up with Blinki you may ask?

Wayne

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Well maybe everybody went on a 2-3 month vacation ?;-)

Here's something I came across during a Dublin conference last week:
http://widget.vodafone.com/dev/