Because it can be used from anywhere, a mobile
phone knows its location. This means we can develop location-sensitive applications,
for example, showing restaurants in three blocks of where the user is. And as most of
the mobile devices have phone capabilities, mobile web can be used to start a call or
message to take quick action.
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And as we have already seen, the number of mobile phones is more than thrice that
of computers in the world. Mobile web can be the means to bridge the digital divide,
to bring the power of computer and internet to the rest of the world.
But There are Many Ways to Do Mobile
Web Development!
You have a good set of options when you want to develop for mobile devices. You
can develop platform-specific applications that subscribers may download. These
applications may internally connect to the net and perform some operations. J2ME
(Java 2 Platform Mobile Edition), Symbian, or BREW/uiOne from Qualcomm can
be used for mobile web development. Adobe's Flash Lite is another platform that's
gaining acceptance.
Yet, the most common method of developing for mobile web is using XHTML
(Extensible Hypertext Markup Language) and WML (Wireless Markup Language).
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