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Saturday, March 18, 2006
The state of mobile web browsing
According to this article by Rudy De Waele the situation could be better, but I also think he completely misses the point by looking at the browser as the Holy Grail of service presentation. Note that we are talking commercial services here, not homegrown static web sites.
I'm convinced a local application is required to make a consumer or corporate service provide the level of interaction, phone feature deployment and quality of presentation that's needed to make a service compelling, except for very simple ones. You can't access many phone features from a browser today, e.g. you can't render scalable and dynamic vector graphics, access the camera, audio recording, PIM etc, and you can't store data locally. Ajax might provide that in the future, but we are certainly not there yet.
Rudy shows that for existing web sites there are now mobile browsers that can provide a decent presentation of the content (despite reductions and outright removals of parts of the content), but also that the understanding of what makes a service optimised for mobile use is little.
about context and the mobile web | gotomobile
I'm convinced a local application is required to make a consumer or corporate service provide the level of interaction, phone feature deployment and quality of presentation that's needed to make a service compelling, except for very simple ones. You can't access many phone features from a browser today, e.g. you can't render scalable and dynamic vector graphics, access the camera, audio recording, PIM etc, and you can't store data locally. Ajax might provide that in the future, but we are certainly not there yet.
Rudy shows that for existing web sites there are now mobile browsers that can provide a decent presentation of the content (despite reductions and outright removals of parts of the content), but also that the understanding of what makes a service optimised for mobile use is little.
about context and the mobile web | gotomobile
