- yes, hypercard for anything would be well received – pc or mobile
- widsets is too simple and i think will never be more than simple for general consumption. it does have legs, though, for fancyer, developer-created stuff
- do you realize that the nokia browser is built on the same code base as apple safari and that the apple widgets are coded in a way that safari can use hence i keep wondering where such widgets might come in for the nokia browser (not that i know anything, despite my affiliation with nokia).
- hello, bryan.
- and, yes, the pc-mobile-web fusion needs to be a part of this and widgets are ideal for this point of convergence

* I do not think that “automatic translation” will be usefull from desktop to mobile, as it will generate too much trouble for both developper and user, and by definition widget should be very simple app.

* By selling the browser, opera might kill his own widget market. I am fan of widget, but I still can not test them on my Nokia as I need to buy Opera for this.

Anyway, I suggest you check my ongoing activities on this side here:

On mobile widget: http://blog.landspurg.net/?cat=14 or my microwidget attempt:

http://blog.landspurg.net/microwidget-is-on-the-way

Personally, I’d love to see the following:
- widgets could be played back on mobile devices, desktop web, and potentially other devices (TivO, etc)
- authoring could be done in a visual manner similar to Hypercard
- programmers could dig deeper and extend the platform for more integrated applications
- widgets are self-contained, distributable, shareable objects that could still be used WITHOUT a network connection.
- intelligent, persistent caching and connected sync/update allowing for occasionally connected devices and applications.

Personally, in playing around with Opera 9 widgets this morning – along with the Opera Platform idea I think there are some really interesting ideas there – especially when you factor in that Opera is also to ship on the Nintendo Wii and a version of their browser is available for the Nintendo DS. Having a cottage industry of user-generated contents and widgets for your DS and/or Wii would be incredible.

Next generation mobile apps should be something which doesn’t really need very high coding skills, but they could be done by anyone. Flash Lite 2.0 or FlashCast is something to that direction and Widsets also.

My Featurelist for killer system
- Platform independent (like widget player software are different)
- Should be URL triggable/referrable so it could be intgrated to rest of the internet
- client side scriptable
- client side cache for data
- background data downloading
- open for anyone, not just for operators and commerial publishing people