Introducing: Yahoo! Blueprint Runtimes

Wednesday September 10th 2008

We’re happy to announce working previews of several exciting new enhancements to our development platform: new Yahoo! Blueprint runtimes that let you create mobile websites, as well as standalone mobile applications for a wide range of devices.

Let’s have a look at these new runtimes:

Yahoo! Blueprint Runtime for Mobile Sites
Use to build rich mobile websites that:
- are hosted in your server infrastructure
- are accessible under your own URL
- work and looks great on hundreds of different devices

Technically, this runtime creates a proxy layer that redirects HTTP requests from your server to Yahoo!’s. This allows you to “host” the Blueprint service on your own server while relying on Yahoo!’s back end to interpret and render Blueprint markup - giving you the right HTML or xHTML that looks best on your users’ phones. Download the preview of the Yahoo! Blueprint Runtime for Mobile Sites today.

Yahoo! Blueprint Runtime for Mobile Apps
Use to create mobile applications on a variety of prominent devices and platforms. Since these are standalone apps, you have full control over how and where to distribute them. When you download today’s developer preview of the Yahoo! Blueprint Runtime for Mobile Apps, you can run your Blueprint service on many Java-enabled phones. The full version will provide you with the possibility to create mobile applications across a wide range of Java, Symbian, and Windows Mobile devices.

The above announcements complement the existing Yahoo! Blueprint Runtime for Yahoo! Go 3.0 Widgets, which provides access to millions of users within Yahoo!’s flagship mobile service.

Stay tuned for more
By adding these new runtimes to the Yahoo! Blueprint platform, we’re showing our passion for bringing new distribution and deployment options to the world’s developers and publishers.

To learn more about the Yahoo! Blueprint platform and its key components, check out the Blueprint overview page.

Filed under: Mobile Widgets
Posted by Markus