I think Android is going to become the dominant platform, but I think
proprietary SDK's are going to yield to the cross-platform promise of
HTML5. All of the major smartphone platforms (except for Microsoft,
if you still count it) have WebKit based browsers.
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From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Pluta [joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2010 4:38 PM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Microsoft .NET frontending IBM i
Nathan Andelin wrote:
I'm interested in supporting mobile browsers, and one thing that fuels that
interest is that we listened to industry thought leaders about modularizing code
under an MVC model, and we can now see potentially across-the-board reuse of our
server components to support mobile devices in addition to desktop clients.
Well theoretically at least everything you do for the web is available
for the mobile devices, at least in the sense that most devices have
browsers. As long as you code to industry standard browser
functionality and not IE, you're going to be golden, with the caveat
that you half to code for smaller screens.
The real interesting bit though will be the thick client mobile
application. I'm sticking with Android for the time being simply
because it's all about Java (yet one more reason Java is the best
language for an RPG programmer to learn). I may delve back into the
iPhone, but for now the Droid is cool - especially since you can
download and install a complete Droid emulation environment and SDK for
free!
Joe
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