Re: Mobile Web

Nathan

I don't agree with all this webkit malarkey, if we are talking about
standards then we should abide by them, and if we ignore them (or the mobile
device manufacturers ignore them) won't we be back to the time of the
browser wars which so many bemoaned?

The resolution of a number of mobile devices has already exceeded the
initial resolution of the desktop PC's (goldfish bowls) some of us first
used (640 x 480 rings a bell!).

No, standards apply to small people as well as big people, and as for HTML5,
yes they have to support it.

- Maurice



-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Nathan Andelin
Sent: 03 November 2010 19:50
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Mobile Web

I agree that W3C standards come into play. On the other hand, I saw one
chart
that indicated that virtually all major mobile platform vendors are adopting

webkit based browsers in recent releases. Well, all except Microsoft, which

doesn't appear to be inclined to let Apple drive de-facto standards.
Another
article discussed how Apple submitted webkit-css extensions to W3C for
approval
under the premise that their webkit-prefix could be removed from the names
of
CSS properties, once adopted by W3C.

Another driver for webkit CSS extensions and HTML5 appears to be that
developers
and users want web applications to have the types of characteristics and
behaviors and transitions and effects that are being used in applications
that
are native to the platform. Do people take comfort in having a common look
and
feel?

-Nathan




----- Original Message ----
From: Maurice O'Prey <Maurice.Oprey@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wed, November 3, 2010 12:27:57 PM
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Mobile Web

Hi Nathan

A good question and very well put, and raised (it is totally of interest). I
don't have the answer myself and look forward to the discussion/debate on
this.

To start, if we are to stick to standards, the actual device and operating
system should be irrelevant? I know it is very tempting to create an app
that's optimised for your own device (but they kind of change very
frequently).

kind Regards

Maurice O'Prey