Requirements for Mobile Ajax on embedded application platform

A position paper for the W3C/OpenAjax Workshop on Mobile Ajax

Masanobu NAKAMURA
NEC Corporation

Background

In comparison to desktop computers, mobile terminals have restrictions on network connectivity and computing resources, etc.

Our Work

We are developing an embedded web application server which works on a mobile terminal.

figure of embedded server

Our Interest

1) compatibility between browsers
Because computing resources of mobile terminals are limited, efficient execution is desired. Extra works caused by incompatibility between browsers should be avoided.

2) offline support
Mobile terminals are not always able to communicate with servers. Page caching helps offline use of page-centric web applications. Is it sufficient for ajax applications, too?