Re: Microsoft .NET frontending IBM i

[Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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