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]

I'm not sure I'm interpreting this right, but I think I agree with Dan's text in the issue statement. I like to divide the world into 

a) applications that run within i standard web browser (context)

and

b) applications that don't

I think BPWG should focus on the former.

Standalone J2ME apps (and applets) belong to the latter and can probably best be considered client-server applications. They might happen to use HTTP as a transport, but that's kind of unimportant I think. They might also interact with a browser somehow but I also find that unimportant. I would not call them web applications.

Attempting to say anything about apps that aren't constrained by a web browser (i.e. expressed in HTML and JavaScript) seems pretty open ended. 

thanks,

Magnus Lönnroth
Head of PDU SDP
Development Unit Multimedia Products
Ericsson AB
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-bpwg-request@w3.org 
> [mailto:public-bpwg-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Scheppe, Kai-Dietrich
> Sent: den 21 februari 2008 18:02
> 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
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
>

Received on Friday, 22 February 2008 07:34:26 UTC