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]

Jo,
Then I agreed with you.

Because I said that a MIDP-based web application's behavior as a web
application is in scope, I was not implying that all MIDP applications
are in scope. The same goes for any native OS based browser, because
it's in scope it does not mean that every application that runs in
native mode is in scope. 

I meant that a mobile web application is a web application regardless of
the execution environment that it runs under. Perhaps that's so obvious
as to be moot, but I thought I was hearing otherwise.

Best regards,
Bryan Sullivan | AT&T

-----Original Message-----
From: Jo Rabin [mailto:jrabin@mtld.mobi] 
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 10:39 AM
To: Sullivan, Bryan; 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]

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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