Nokia WRT Extension for Adobe Dreamweaver

Create WRT widgets with your favourite web-authoring tool

Adobe Dreamweaver is a leading commercial web-development environment that offers integrated language support for HTML, DOM, JavaScript™, and CSS technologies. Dreamweaver is used widely for professional website development.

For more information, visit the Dreamweaver page on the Adobe website »

The Nokia WRT Extension for Adobe Dreamweaver provides features that enable the creation, editing, testing, validation, packaging, and deployment of WRT widgets from within Dreamweaver.

WRT widgets are small, task-focused web applications that are installed and run in the same way as other Symbian applications. WRT widgets allow websites or web services to be optimised for use on Symbian devices. Because they’re easy to develop and use, WRT widgets are ideal for driving traffic to your website from Symbian devices.

For more information, visit the WRT technology page »

What’s the latest news about the Nokia WRT Extension for Adobe Dreamweaver?

Nokia WRT Extension 2.0 for Adobe Dreamweaver is now available in Chinese (simplified and traditional), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Spanish translations. These versions gain features that enable the creation and testing of widgets for all Nokia Symbian devices that support WRT. This includes support for the new home–screen-widget capability of the Nokia N97 mobile computer.

The new features include support for:

• Web Runtime 1.1 API and S60 Platform Services 1.0 API, with support for code-completion and previewing widgets.
• Previewing home-screen widgets.
• Touch-based interaction in the widget preview.
• Charger, SMS and MMS messaging, and memory-card event triggers in the widget preview.
• A JavaScript console in the widget preview.
• Preview update utility for widget projects created in Nokia WRT Extension 1.0 for Adobe Dreamweaver.
• Comprehensive links to documentation.

What can I do with the Nokia WRT Extension for Adobe Dreamweaver?

WRT widgets use standard web technologies, such as HTML and JavaScript™. Dreamweaver is a tool designed to make working with standard web technologies straightforward.

The Nokia WRT Extension for Adobe Dreamweaver adds the features WRT widget developers need to develop with Dreamweaver. These features allow existing WRT widget projects or widget packages to be imported or new projects to be created easily. WRT widget code can then be written rapidly using features such as JavaScript code completion for the WRT 1.1 API. The extension also provides features to preview, validate, package, and deploy the widget. Widgets can be debugged in Firefox using Firebug. In addition, the extension includes the WRTKit library, which contains images and JavaScript code to enable the creation of visually appealing and functionally rich WRT widgets. To simplify the use of the WRTKit library, the extension enables snippets of JavaScript to be added to your code. And you have the freedom to use the extension on a computer running either the Microsoft Windows or Apple Mac OS X operating systems.

The Nokia WRT Extension for Adobe Dreamweaver enables you to use your favourite web-authoring tool to develop useful, exciting WRT widgets that maximise the traffic to your website or web service from Symbian devices.

Get a quick introduction from the Creating widgets with the Nokia WRT Extension for Adobe Dreamweaver screencast »
For more information on creating WRT widgets, visit the Web Runtime QuickStart page »

What’s in the Nokia WRT Extension for Adobe Dreamweaver?

The extension package contains the Dreamweaver tools and links to documentation. The extension provides features to create, edit, test, validate, package, and deploy WRT widgets. To facilitate testing, a preview feature includes the ability to preview home-screen mini views, test widgets against simulated Symbian-device application and status information, and simulate device events such as those for the charger and memory cards. JavaScript console messages can be observed in the preview also.

The documentation links provide access to the Web Developer’s Library, WRTKit Developer’s Guide, and Nokia WRT Extension for Adobe Dreamweaver User Guide.

For more information, visit the Nokia WRT Extension for Adobe Dreamweaver features page »

How do I get started with the Nokia WRT Extension for Adobe Dreamweaver?

You’ll need to be familiar with the development of web pages using standard web technologies, such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript™, and Ajax. No specific knowledge of Symbian is required to create widgets for WRT.

Next, you’ll need Dreamweaver CS4, which you can download as a 30-day trial or purchase from the Dreamweaver page on the Adobe website. Dreamweaver can be installed on a Microsoft Windows XP or Vista PC or computer running Mac OS X 10.4.11 to 10.5.4. Full details of system requirements are provided on the Dreamweaver system requirements page.

Now, download the Nokia WRT Extension for Adobe Dreamweaver.

Installation of the English language version is undertaken from the Adobe Extension Manager, which is opened from the Help menu in Dreamweaaver by clicking Manage Extensions. In the Adobe Extension Manager, select Install, locate the Nokia WRT Extension and follow the installation instructions.

The non-English versions of the extension are installed as native Microsoft Windows or Apple Mac applications.

Once installed, the Nokia Update Manager will regularly check for updates to the extension.

For more information, visit the Nokia WRT Extension for Adobe Dreamweaver QuickStart page or view the Creating widgets with the Nokia WRT Extension for Adobe Dreamweaver screencast.

What help does Forum Nokia offer for the Nokia WRT Extension for Adobe Dreamweaver?

Forum Nokia offers all developers a wide range of professional and community-based help and support. (See the box at right for links.)

How do I go to market with my WRT widgets?

The Ovi store is the most effective channel through which to distribute your widgets to tens of millions of Nokia Symbian devices worldwide.

For more information, visit the publish to Ovi Store page »

You can also distribute your WRT widgets on a company website, on an intranet, or through your favourite social-networking sites. To have WRT widgets installed automatically when deployed through the Web Browser for S60, ensure that they’re given the MIME type AddType x-nokia-widget .wgz on the server.

With which Nokia platforms and devices is the Nokia WRT Extension for Adobe Dreamweaver compatible?

You can use the Nokia WRT Extension for Adobe Dreamweaver to create WRT widgets for any Symbian device supporting WRT.

See a full list of Nokia Symbian devices that offer WRT »