Re: Mobile Web

[Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>]

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