Category Archives: Tips and Tricks

Storing Objects to HTML5 Client-side Storage

Posted on Monday, August 30, 2010 by Tommi Laukkanen

Here is a handy tip on how to store your JavaScript objects into HTML5 client-side storage which is basically a simple key/value hashtable. You can easily store objects into a storage in JSON format. Code that I’m using for storing … Continue reading →

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Labyrinth Game with W3C Widget, Accelerometer API and Nokia N900

Posted on Saturday, August 21, 2010 by Tommi Laukkanen

I’ve been crafting the W3C Widgets for Qt Web Runtime (WRT) from the day Qt guys released the version for my Nokia N900. I haven’t been so productive on any other platform. This time I crafted a small game of … Continue reading →

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Check Screen Orientation with jQuery in W3C Widget

Posted on Friday, August 13, 2010 by Tommi Laukkanen

Here is a small tip for your W3C Widget on how you can identify when screen orientation have changed. It’s simple to use additional JavaScript libraries in widgets so it makes sense to use something like jQuery in your widgets. … Continue reading →

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How to Create Simple W3C Widget

Posted on Tuesday, August 10, 2010 by Tommi Laukkanen

Here are instructions how you can create a simple W3C widget that runs on Qt Web Runtime (WRT) e.g. on Nokia N900. Widgets are just ZIP packages containing at least two files: Configuration file (config.xml) and resource files (index.html and … Continue reading →

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LWUIT 1.1 for Java ME Developers

Posted on Sunday, October 18, 2009 by Tommi Laukkanen

One of the problems with Java ME applications containing more advanced UI components have been that it is really painful to have it rendered consistently across different platforms and devices. I’ve used to implement my own set of practices on … Continue reading →

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