Trolltech’s Qt WebKit Integration Brings Web 2.0 Services to Mobile Phones

Helps mobile operators and handset manufacturers enrich phone applications with live web content such as online maps, music stores and instant messaging

Barcelona, Spain, 11 February - 2008 - Trolltech® has integrated its Qt cross-platform development framework with WebKit, the web browser technology used in Apple’s iPhone and millions of Nokia smartphones. The integration of Qt and WebKit will enable mobile operators and handset manufacturers to create a customer experience that enriches mobile phone applications with live web content.

Google™ Earth and iTunes are examples of such services currently available on the desktop. With Trolltech’s Qt WebKit Integration, these type of applications –  along with services such as social networking, instant messaging and real-time financial updates – can also be delivered to mobile phones.

Trolltech expects the Qt WebKit Integration to provide a vital tool as industry players strive to create attractive, revenue-generating services to take a share of the lucrative mobile entertainment market.

The integration of Qt and WebKit  will enable handset manufacturers and operators to build advanced user interfaces that incorporate real-time web content and services more smoothly and easily than previously possible. This will help create dynamic, interactive software that combines online and offline content, and transfers the user experience of the web to mobile phones. The Qt WebKit Integration allows device vendors and service providers to define their own browser environment, guaranteeing a consistent user experience across operating systems and devices.

Lars Knoll - one of the creators of the predecessor to WebKit and now Trolltech’s vice president of engineering - explains: “The Qt WebKit Integration helps developers to combine live web content with mobile and desktop applications. This erodes the boundaries between the desktop, mobile phones and the Web. It also enables graphics and Web designers to join developers in making user interfaces more advanced than ever – no matter which device or desktop application you are using.“he popularity of WebKit within the open source and commercial development community has led to a continual improvement in the quality of the code. The rendering engine is compliant with the latest standards for HTML, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, SVG and AJAX.

The Qt WebKit Integration enables developers to implement WebKit in a Qt environment, which means all painting of Web pages, network communication and XML handling are based on Qt. Qt developers can also display web pages and use the JavaScript scripting language to make their applications more dynamic and interactive. By integrating HTML web-design elements with Qt-based functionality, it is now possible to create cutting-edge user interfaces.beyond what is feasible today.

With all these benefits available to handset manufactures and operators, the time to market for new appealing consumer services will dramatically improve.

 

• For more information about the Qt WebKit Integration, please click here.

 

Availability

The Qt WebKit Integration will be available as a separate module in Qt 4.4 which will be released in mid Q2, 2008.

About Trolltech

Trolltech provides cross-platform software development frameworks and application platforms. Trolltech’s Qt is used in popular software such as Skype®, Google Earth, Adobe® Photoshop® Elements, Lucasfilm® and by more than 5000 customers worldwide. Trolltech’s Qtopia® has enabled a new generation of exciting consumer devices such as mobile handsets, video-phones, set-top boxes and media players. Trolltech’s software has shipped in more than 10 million devices.

Trolltech’s products enable companies to easily build and deploy software across a wide range of operating systems and electronic devices. The company serves desktop and embedded application providers, as well as consumer electronics and mobile vendors, who face challenges in delivering user-friendly and differentiated software. Trolltech enables customers to accelerate innovation, shorten time to market and increase revenues. Trolltech’s software improves the user experience by increasing the appeal and quality of customer's applications on desktop and devices. The future proof Qt software allows developers to code less, create more and deploy anywhere.

Trolltech supports open source and commercial customers. The company has offices in California, U.S.A.; Brisbane, Australia; Beijing, China; Berlin and Munich, Germany; Oslo, Norway. It is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol TROLL. For more information about Trolltech, please visit www.trolltech.com.

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