Re: Widget must have a URL

  Why not having a different approach? A widget would register to be
notified when an SMS arrive, and upon reception, the widget wake up?
  In fact, nothing prevent you to put a link in an SMS, with or without
widget, but this limit the use cases...

On 6/1/07, Gene Vayngrib <gene_vayngrib@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> Here is a use case - Push mail implemented as widget. Details: widget is
> running on the mobile phone, SMS message arrives alerting user to some
> changes. User clicks on a link in URL and a corresponding widget opens and
> picks up the changes from the Web. This would allow push-mail implemented as
> widget and many other enterprise scenarios - I can see many uses in CRM, for
> example. What is important - without widget having its own URL such
> applications become impossible to create. Please drop me a note if you see
> ANY workaround based on current Widget spec?
>
> --0-1904635671-1180704966=:79654
> Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
>
> Here is a use case - Push mail implemented as widget. Details: widget is
> running on the mobile phone, SMS message arrives alerting user to some
> changes. User clicks on a link in URL and a corresponding widget opens and
> picks up the changes from the Web. This would allow push-mail implemented as
> widget and many other enterprise scenarios - I can see many uses in CRM, for
> example. What is important - without widget having its own URL such
> applications become impossible to create. Please drop me a note if you see
> ANY workaround based on current Widget spec?<br>
> --0-1904635671-1180704966=:79654--
>
>
>


-- 
Thomas Landspurg
http://blog.landspurg.net