- From: Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>
- Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 10:00:51 +0530
- To: "stephane boyera" <boyera@w3.org>, public-mwi-ec@w3.org
On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 20:59:20 +0530, stephane boyera <boyera@w3.org> wrote: > As a followup of the workshop ([1]) I just published a white paper ([2]) > describing roughly the general framework W3C is planning to follow in > the next monthes and the rationale behind our plans. > > Feel free to send comments privately or start discussion here. > > [1] http://www.w3.org/2006/07/MWI-EC/cfp.html > [2] http://www.w3.org/2006/12/digital_divide/public.html Hi Stéphane, Thanks for this. I think it is a valuable read. Some comments: In looking at guidelines for developing mobile applications, this work should be coordinated wth the existing work on Mobile Web Best Practices, with a goal of ensuring that there is a seamless transition from feature phones to high-end expensive mobile tablet type devices. It is also important to include hardware manufacturers and network operators in this kind of discussion (as we have already done in Mobile Web Best Practices). But even more important is to include people who are deploying applications. The suggestion of a text based browser is an interesting one. While in principle the web should work fine on such a browser, I am not sure that the intermediate step is as valid now as it was in the early days of the web. It seems that graphics capability is relatively much cheaper (compared to computing power) than it was then, and by the time you have the capacity to put networking and web page processing on the phone, you generally have the power to put a full browser there. Opera mini provides access to the full web on mid-range phones in a small package. Current text-only browsers are at least several times the size of the high-end version. It is, of course, technically possible to apply the same model to an SMS-based browser (this is sort of what Agora was, via email, many years ago - and in 2000 I know that browser was in active use, although I am not sure if it is still running anywhere). The question is whether it is finacially viable - this depends on the cost of SMS traffic compared to the cost of real data, and on the difference in manufacture cost for the hardware. What do people think? Cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile, Opera Software: Standards Group hablo español - je parle français - jeg lærer norsk chaals@opera.com Try Opera 9.1 http://opera.com
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