Future of Mobile: Beyond WAP: Advance Browsing, Mobile Ajax, and the future of the Web

by Daniel Appelquist (Vodafone)

• Voda are pushing forward on xHTML Reunification
  • XHTML Basic (W3C) vs XHTML-MP (Open Mobile Alliance, ex-WAP Forum)
• Participating in W3C Ubiquitous Web working group
• "In 5 years time, there will be only one web, and it will be the mobile web"
• W3C has launched mobileOK from today
  • Tests plus open source java reference implementation for local checking

• Mobile AJAX Workshop from Sep 2007: http://www.w3.org/2007/06/mobile-ajax/report.html

• DOJO has refactored itself and shrunk down to target iPhone and Nokia S60 browser
  • A lot of the bulk in DOJO was dealing with IE6, taking it out made the lib much smaller
• Device access vs. security
• SVG tiny 1.2 includes AJAX capabilities
  • e.g. Vodafone Germany - Bundesliga SVGt app running in Ikivo player
  • will move to be integrated within the browser
• WICD - Web Integration Compound Document

  • Mandates XmlHttpRequest

  • Details http://www.w3.org/2004/CDF/