Re: Widget must have a URL

Hi Thomas,
Thanks for you reply.
Register to be notified? How? Do you know how to do it in widget's JavaScript in any of the mobile browser-based widget platforms: iPhone, Opera, S60? If you do, please be kind to let me know. This would mean that Widget engine vendor would provide some kind of proprietary JavaScript plugin API to register and receive the SMS message.
The solution I wrote about is a lot simpler - it is often called custom protocol handler and is very common way for a browser to launch applications. Try to type winamp://test, aim://test, .. in your browser of choice and the application will be launched. See more info: http://blog.ryaneby.com/archives/firefox-protocol-handlers/   http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Aa767914.aspx

Thomas Landspurg <thomas.landspurg@gmail.com> wrote:   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? 

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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> 
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