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Nokia S60 Touch User Interface and S60 Browser

So at the end of last month, Stefan Constantinescu over at Ring Nokia posted a blog entry with a screenshot of an “S60 UI Evolution” slide from a presentation that ended up being cancelled but that was supposed to have taken place at the recent S60 Summit in Madrid. One of the bullets on the slide says, Touch User Interface for new kinds of products.

I didn’t pay so much attention to that news until a week or so later when, while reading through mail from the webkit-changes list, I came across the commit message for WebKit revision 21303, which is related to WebKit bugzilla 13561. The description for both the commit and the bugzilla item reads:

S60 3.2 Touch: Scrolling initial implementatoin

So I guess this means we’ll eventually be seeing a version of the WebKit-based S60 browser shipping on devices with the S60 Touch UI and making use of that touch UI. Nice.