Best Practices: Paving The Mobile Web 2.0 Path

Arun Ranganathan

arunranga@aol.com

Best Practices Working Group

Consists of Some Titans (They're My Heroes)
But: (US) Device Market Issues
And: (Some) Best Practices In Action (Demos)
My Wishlist For The Mobile Future

Notes:

Some Constraints (and Opportunities!)

Various Walled Gardens
- The Familiar WAP Gateways
And How Are Compelling Mobile Apps *Really* Made?
- J2ME, BREW, WinCE+, etc. (But No Special APIs Yet!)
- And... not enough Browser Magic.. unlike the desktop
All That Being Said... Some Demos :-)

Notes:

How Easy or Hard Are Best Practices (BPs)?

Demos and Use of BPs: wap.mapquest.com, Mobile IM, alerts...
Issues: The Truth About Tables, Session (URL) and Images
BPs make sense, and don't mean LCD (Lowest Common Denominator)

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So: My 2.0 WishList

Dismantle the Walls (and Open those APIs)
- Give us More Read/Write Metaphors on the Mobile Web
Give us a Richer App. Environment
- Integrate Apps. And Web More Seamlessly
(But Default Delivery Context Isn't Chopped Liver)

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