Tuesday, June 28, 2005

Dashboard as a testbed for Nokia mobile phone software?

Ever since the introduction of MacOSX 10.4 (Tiger) I asked myself: this is just an amazing new operating system with dozens of great new features, but why did they include Dashboard? In my opinion it was one of the most useless additions to the MacOS in the last 20 years. It is slow, it grabs tons of RAM, so it makes your Mac slower, it is quite useless, because nearly everything, that you now see as Dashboard widgets can be run in a browser or as a small standalone application. And on top of it: there is no Expose to get rid of the widget clutter in your Dashboard screen. So what is the point of it? Then suddenly on June, 13th, I got the following press release from Nokia titled "Nokia develops a new browser for Series 60 by using open source software". And within a few days it slowly became more and more conscious for me: WebCore/KHTML and JavaScriptCore/KJS on Nokia Series 60 mobile phones (or devices like the Nokia 770 mini tablet) should allow you to use Dashboard widgets from MacOSX 10.4 on Symbian devices!

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