Vodafone uses Opera to push for open standards

December 17, 2008 · by Haavard

Vodafone's new Widget Manager runs on Opera and open standards instead of proprietary platforms like Nokia's Widsets. The reason is simple:

[Widsets] is a Java platform, so it’s not open. Widget Manager is built on Opera, so it’s faster and easier to write for. It uses open standards.

Easier to write, shorter time to market. This basically echoes Opera's position. Using open standards makes it faster and easier to develop applications. Opera is pushing for widgets based on open standard, and Vodafone seems to agree that this is a good thing.

So now both Vodafone and T-Mobile are going for Opera's widget solution rather than competing technologies that are proprietary and more difficult and time-consuming to work with.

Readers' comments 4

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MyOpera team, please fix this!Wednesday, December 17, 2008 12:45:37 PM
yay for opera and standards

One thing to fix: Nokia's Widsets
Miladin MiladinoskiWednesday, December 17, 2008 1:04:29 PM
I haven't used Widsets for a while, but they were extremely painfully slow with EDGE connection on a Nokia 6300. Not recommended.
António AfonsoWednesday, December 17, 2008 1:59:39 PM
What do they mean by "[Widsets] is a Java platform, so it’s not open"?
FataLWednesday, December 17, 2008 7:14:50 PM
How about perfomance?
Opera's HTML/CSS/JavaScript based widgets vs Nokia's Java based widgets?