If this was not enough, the development
technology is the same??”XHTML, CSS, and AJAX!
Imagine a currency conversion calculator. If you build a web application for it, the
user must be online to use it. But if it's a widget, once installed, it can be called up
even when the user is not connected to the Web. The widget can use cached data and
covert currencies on its own now.
While there are alternatives to run applications outside the browser, the browsers
themselves are getting intelligent. Let's see what we can expect in the future
mobile browsers.
Mobile Browsers Get Better
Today's latest mobile browsers are not much behind their desktop counterparts.
They can show standard web pages in a scaled down fashion, allow the user to zoom
in and pan, automatically change display if you rotate your device, support CSS and
AJAX, and can do an excellent job at showing you the Internet.
But it's still difficult to use a mobile browser. Even though some browsers support
opening multiple pages at once, it's difficult to navigate among them. The browser
can drain the battery, run too slow, and simply can't do what a native application
can do.
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