Hello World!
My name is Clement, Clem to be short, I have been working in computing for a couple of years now, especially getting involved in open source communities, so many great projects created by open communities!! What a nice concept..
My real passion in this field are the cutting edge technologies(especially web technologies), or in other word, the coming standards .
I am far from being a guru but I am creating today this blog to share point of views and discuss about some subjects I enjoy.
So let's get going!
How mobile experience of the web will evolve?
Let's establish some concepts:
The web is amazing by the diversity of content you can find, but it also give people many ways to interact with each others in rich interfaces.
Mobile market is in perpetual expension, and more and more, internet access get easier through the actual mobile operators.
My point of view is that we are in a transition phase where mobile standards have to be defined, aiming for the best compromise between computer web experience ans mobile web experience.
Who are the biggest actors in the mobile web world?
Mobile Browsers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_browser#Pioneers
Also some which are not in the list as Mobile Firefox/SkyFire/
I am sure there are plenty of others out there, but in the past months, some of them have done a big jump ahead, like skyfire in my own opinion.
Mobile Technologies:
From linux to windows ce through s60 and many others, each of those mobile operating systems have there own way to handle web browsing
This diversity makes it harder to define a standard able to recreate the richness of the web on mobile phones.
By richness, I am talking about Flash like interfaces, bringing the interaction with users to the next level.
At the end of the post you will find links to some of the resources I get my thoughts from, but in my point of view, mobile web browsers world is a real jungle! And nobody has come with a solution which can go along with all mobile technologies.
I also would like to outline that solutions which render the web content in a mobile, are splitting the web in two, the computer web and the mobile web. Of course you can interact on the web with your mobile but it would be in a different interface, the same content would have to be displayed using a source code especially created for mobile browsers.
Furthermore, mobile browsers do not accept all rich content, and each browser, even each mobile has his own capabilities.
It would be like having one web for computers, which can partially be accessed by mobile browsers. Each mobile browser having his own standards, the mobile web would be clustered, and you would have to choose between mobile devices depending on which content type you wish to acess.
Today, I was browsing around, and I came across SkyFire website, what a great browser! Have a look to the videos, this browser gives a real web experience on a mobile phone, Flash, Ajax, Javascript, etc. It just display as well as your favorite desktop web browser.
The content page is viewed in a zoom out way, you can zoom in zones you define and scroll in directions as on google map for example.
No more flash lite, no more extra code for mobile phones web interfaces, you just get what you have on the web.
My first thought would be for flash mobile games or applications.. Simply make your multiplayer game the standard size of mobile screen and here we go, any mobile with the browser installed could join!
It is still an alpha version and has not been relased widly yet, but so promising!
I have two concerns, the alpha version is free to test but will it get a price when released? And also this is a server based system, so there is the privacy matter to keep in mind.
If it stays free, it could be a huge contender on the run for mobile standardisation of the web. And even if it doesn't, may be they are the pionneers of a new way to deal with the web on mobiles..
Tell me what you think ;)
Bye
SkyFire review
iPhone/Flash matter
Little thoughts on SkyFire
Safari iPhone
Mobile Firefox vs Opera Mini
I did have a look to many other ressources but it would be long and hard to list them all going through my web browsing history.. Sorry
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