Handful of Nothing

Well, there I was looking at those nice things about the widsets, making fun of people only being able to develop to the iphone with widgets when I decided : Why not use some of my nice Wifi-enabled phones to install this widsets straight with them? I don’t believe Steve jobs was right when he said that until today only the “baby” internet was working on the phones, and the IPhone will bring the real internet to your pocket. I thought with myself : S60 browsers uses webkit, safari uses webkit, so I have already the same browser as the iphone, less the eye candy, but the engines are the same right?

It seems so, so in the end Iphone will meet the same complications as users of S60 have been finding on their phones. So together with proximity sensor, ilumination sensor now we have the “browser” as fake “innovations” on the iphone.

But back to my Nokia phones… problems
Well, I wouldn’t say it’s a phone problem but rather a website problem. Widsets site uses javascript and not regular forms to make a ok button change colors when it’s “ready” to be clicked. (why not use a simple disabled?) and what happens? Well, if you try to register yourself with your NICE, EDGY phone like ne N95 or E61 you just can’t do it.

Why? Because some lovely front end builder decided to use some nice Javascript, and must be that kind of “Treat me as a real developer, look I know how to use the object notations in JS” because he used all “advanced” tricks to play out with the simple button and make it unavailable to … tchananan! NOKIA PHONES! Nice, so I need to come back to my lap top to be able to install widgets on my phone. Thank you mr Javascript. Instead of showing off your skills, you should at least ask someone to tests with the biggest interested on the subject phones.

So please take your time to see the amount of show off you can find here in the JS file that actually breaks on Nokia phones. Such a pity. And Why do that? Just to have “nice” AJAX-trendy effects. Like checking the user name or sliding in a log in box. Remember people.. your target is mobile browsers.

Like we say here in Brazil : House of a blacksmith, wooden stick.

Sarcasm gone, works nicely on the Firefox, but… It takes a little bit to show feedback on the actions, and there’s no clear indication that an rpc call was made. Want to use Ajax or other trend thing? Do so, but do no forget the users.