{"id":289,"date":"2006-11-13T23:06:45","date_gmt":"2006-11-14T05:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/archives\/2006\/11\/13\/rumblings-for-the-mobile-web\/"},"modified":"2006-11-13T23:06:45","modified_gmt":"2006-11-14T05:06:45","slug":"rumblings-for-the-mobile-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/11\/13\/rumblings-for-the-mobile-web\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumblings For the Mobile Web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here's a few quick semi-related items in the world of mobile web geekery, that I thought you might like.  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The big news today is that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun.com\/software\/opensource\/java\/\">Sun is open-sourcing<\/a> its Java implementations, meaning its <span class=\"definition\" title=\"Java Development Kit\">JDK<\/span> and <span class=\"definition\" title=\"Java Mobile Edition\">JME<\/span> including the compilers and virtual machines.  I've noticed that those around the blogosphere are sometimes misleadingly reporting that \"Java is now free\", but Sun specifically states in their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun.com\/software\/opensource\/java\/faq.jsp#b8\">FAQ<\/a> that neither the language or the APIs are affected (only the implementations).  This is really a play to keep Java ME as the leading mobile application development platform.  Sounds like they are worried about Adobe's FlashLite and XHTML+JavaScript starting to impact the mobile web development world.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.codedread.com\/googleads.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theinquirer.net\/default.aspx?article=35492\">Here's a story<\/a> about how Netbeans 5.5 eases mobile development with its support of SVG.  The author paints a really nice picture of how it's as simple as drag-drop, bind some graphics to code and away you go.  I suspect the example was pretty contrived to get that big of a crowd reaction.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Russell, of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dojotoolkit.org\/\">Dojo<\/a> fame, decrees <a href=\"http:\/\/alex.dojotoolkit.org\/?p=589\">The Law of Notepad<\/a>, which is his way of saying that mobile web development won't take off until it's simple enough for any lazy programmer to whip something together in a text editor and get it to run (even if it's not 100% perfectly conforming code, for instance).<\/p>\n<p>I will freely admit that I have zero experience with mobile web development.  I have yet to find myself in a situation where I actually needed my mobile for anything other than voice conversation and text messaging.  I think I just find the environment too constraining, in terms of both input and sensory output, to be interesting.  Maybe I'm holding out a naive hope that eventually the mobile web and the desktop web worlds will converge transparently from a development standpoint (the same XHTML+SVG+JavaScript+CSS or Java applet or Flash .swf will work equally well on my desktop browser or on my phone).<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.codedread.com\/googleads.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a few quick semi-related items in the world of mobile web geekery, that I thought you might like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,25,11,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quicklinks","category-software","category-technology","category-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}