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Thursday, March 30, 2006
Opera Mini makes service development less device dependent
I agree, as it uses de facto Web technologies (read HTTP and HTML) instead of telecom's own standards (read WAP).
Ironically though, part of the reason WAP 2.0 was developed was to get one consistent browser behavior across all phones, and adapted to the issues of small displays etc. In practice that hasn't happened and most services still check on the name of the phone rather than getting the detailed phone characteristics that's possible with WAP.
I would argue that web developers' complaint that WAP is different from what they are used to is a load a B.S., as it's just something new to learn, but if it's almost the same to develop for the "fixed" and the mobile Internet that's of course even better.
Mobile Development Made Simple(r) With Opera Mini at MobHappy
Ironically though, part of the reason WAP 2.0 was developed was to get one consistent browser behavior across all phones, and adapted to the issues of small displays etc. In practice that hasn't happened and most services still check on the name of the phone rather than getting the detailed phone characteristics that's possible with WAP.
I would argue that web developers' complaint that WAP is different from what they are used to is a load a B.S., as it's just something new to learn, but if it's almost the same to develop for the "fixed" and the mobile Internet that's of course even better.
Mobile Development Made Simple(r) With Opera Mini at MobHappy
