RE: ISSUE-237 (Define Mobile Web Applications): What is the definition of a "Mobile Web Application" for the purposes of BP2? [Mobile Web Applications Best Practices]

Bryan

I think your example is fine but when we are talking Mobile Web Best
Practices and J2ME - we specifically don't mean best practices for
writing J2ME applications - i.e. we are not writing Midlet guidelines.
Whether a browser is implemented in J2ME is moot, it's the applications
it can execute that we care about. 

Jo



> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-bpwg-request@w3.org [mailto:public-bpwg-request@w3.org]
On
> Behalf Of Sullivan, Bryan
> Sent: 21 February 2008 17:38
> To: Scheppe, Kai-Dietrich; Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group WG
> Subject: RE: ISSUE-237 (Define Mobile Web Applications): What is the
> definition of a "Mobile Web Application" for the purposes of BP2?
[Mobile
> Web Applications Best Practices]
> 
> 
> Kai,
> As I said on the call, the underlying environment in which a web
> application runs in should not be a limiting factor. MIDP is an
> execution environment for example, similar to a native OS in that it
> provides application support services such as API's for network
access.
> There are popular web browsers that run under MIDP, and these should
be
> also in scope.
> 
> Our intent is to provide practical guidance to developers of web
> technology based applications in general as you have defined them,
i.e.
> that provide a content presentation and interaction experience for
> users.
> 
> I don't see the value of limiting this to specific "types" of
> applications or execution environments (e.g. one in which DOM is the
> main way of interacting with the environment), but I do see the value
of
> using the browser as a typical/example frame in which to discuss best
> practices that are more widely applicable (this was specifically the
> resolution in the Nov F2F).
> 
> Best regards,
> Bryan Sullivan | AT&T | Service Standards
> bryan.sullivan@att.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-bpwg-request@w3.org [mailto:public-bpwg-request@w3.org]
On
> Behalf Of Scheppe, Kai-Dietrich
> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 9:02 AM
> To: Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group WG
> Subject: RE: ISSUE-237 (Define Mobile Web Applications): What is the
> definition of a "Mobile Web Application" for the purposes of BP2?
> [Mobile Web Applications Best Practices]
> 
> 
> A web application exposes some sort of interface to the user.
> This interface may be an application running in the browser itself or
it
> may be an application running on the server, but display some GUI with
> which the user may interact.
> 
> Moving this into a mobile context, a web application must run without
> any additions, such as plugins or Java.
> 
> -- Kai
> 
> 
> Please make note of my new email address:
> k.scheppe@telekom.de
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: public-bpwg-request@w3.org
> > [mailto:public-bpwg-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Mobile Web Best
> > Practices Working Group Issue Tracker
> > Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 5:43 PM
> > To: public-bpwg@w3.org
> > Subject: ISSUE-237 (Define Mobile Web Applications): What is the
> > definition of a "Mobile Web Application" for the purposes of BP2?
> > [Mobile Web Applications Best Practices]
> >
> >
> > ISSUE-237 (Define Mobile Web Applications): What is the definition
of
> > a "Mobile Web Application" for the purposes of BP2? [Mobile Web
> > Applications Best Practices]
> >
> > http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/BPWG/Group/track/issues/
> >
> > Raised by: Daniel Appelquist
> > On product: Mobile Web Applications Best Practices
> >
> > We have a number of different (but I would say converging) views on
> > what constitutes a Mobile Web Application.  My view is that we are
> > talking about applications for which the user interface element
> > executes in the browser/web technologies context. I would
specifically
> 
> > put device APIs out of scope. I would specifically put widgets out
of
> > scope. I would specifically put non-"web" technologies such as flash
> > and silverlight out of scope. Jo has suggested we could use the
> > criterion of whether or not the technology uses the underlying
> > technology of the DOM to define "Web technologies."  As agreed on
> > today's call, this is an important enough issue to pull out from the
> > discussion on scope and give it its own issue.  I want to come back
to
> 
> > this issue on next week's call and take a resolution on this point
so
> > we can get this out of the way before the next F2f.
> >
> > Discuss!
> >
> > Dan
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>

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