There are demands that browsers open up access to device capabilities to web
applications, and that they execute JavaScript without burning the battery. Mobile
browsers will get there. And that too quite soon!
Minimo is a mobile-specific browser from Firefox. Apple's iPhone uses Safari as its
browser. Opera's browsers are getting better everyday. And many manufacturers are
basing their browser implementations on WebKit (www.webkit.org)??”making way
for a standard and powerful platform to serve the Internet to the user.
Mobile Web 3.0?
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Do We Need Server-Side Adaptation?
If browsers are getting standardized, do we still need server-side adaptation? The
answer is: Yes! Even after standard compliance of browsers, we still have variations
in screen sizes, input methods, and network speeds to deal with. These can't be dealt
without adaptation at server level. Apart from the initiatives we have already talked
about in the book??”like WURFL and CSS??”there are other interesting approaches
coming up.
One such approach is W3C's DIAL??”Device Independent Authoring Language.
DIAL (http://www.w3.org/TR/dial/) is a combination of XHTML 2, XForms,
and DISelect.
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