- From: Jeff Sonstein <jeffs@it.rit.edu>
- Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 12:06:27 -0400
- To: public-bpwg@w3.org
On May 23, 2008, at 10:49 AM, Adam wrote: > Jo objected to the assertion that limited device processing capability > was a good example of a limitation that will become vanishingly > insignificant > in the foreseeable future. as one of the weirdos who runs things like Apache and other services under the BSD sub-system on his everyday mobile device I am in the "will become insignificant in the future" camp and think it is reasonable to recognize trends like this "out loud" what is "high end" today becomes "everyday" amazingly rapidly within the mobile device domain... witness the move over the past couple of years bringing photographic capabilities both still and movie "down" into what is expected of an everyday device a comment was made elsewhere about some of these issues we are writing about being "so 1996" and the problem is that that really is where things stand in some ways... for example right now we *do* need to talk about graceful degradation & progressive enhancement with both based on the capabilities of the client context but the need to talk about that will fade as the XHTML/CSS/ECMAScript trio penetrates more thoroughly the mobile browser ecology just as the need to talk to big-screen developers about these issues has faded over time in the desktop/laptop "space" my this has become a long-winded way of saying "yes, I think this is a decent example" <grin/> jeffs -- “In an attempt to take Baltimore, the British attacked Fort McHenry, which protected the harbor. Bombs were soon bursting in air, rockets were glaring, and all in all it was a moment of great historical interest. During the bombardment, a young lawyer named Francis Scott Key wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner", and when, by the dawn's early light, the British heard it sung, they fled in terror! " -- Richard Armour, It All Started With Columbus -- ============ Jeff Sonstein http://www.it.rit.edu/~jxs/ http://ariadne.iz.net/~jeffs/ http://ariadne.iz.net/~jeffs/jeffs.asc http://www.it.rit.edu/~jxs/emailDisclaimer.html
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