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Re:The mobile app is going the way of the CD-ROM: To the dus... by commanda on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @08:06PM (#3218356)
>But right now thats like saying a kid won't have a good job because of his grade 5 scores.

Conversely, would you say that a kid in grade 5 who has bad scores is going to have a great job when he grows up, just you wait and see? We can only judge the mobile web as a platform (if one can even say that it is one platform and not many) by what it offers on mobile handsets today, not by what we hope it will one day become. Also, we can't judge it by hoping that one day, all the mobile browsers will conform to the WC3's standards, because we know how good a job today's desktop browsers do at quickly becoming standards-compliant.

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Re:The mobile app is going the way of the CD-ROM: To the dus... by comedian on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @08:36PM (#3218452)
Here's the fact: The web is a computing paradigm that was not designed for mobile.
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Re:The mobile app is going the way of the CD-ROM: To the dus... by pavel_lishin on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @09:00PM (#3218518)
A mobile device is just another client. The web was designed to be agnostic in that regard, was it not?
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Re:The mobile app is going the way of the CD-ROM: To the dus... by comedian on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @09:35PM (#3218598)
"When you have a hammer everything looks like a nail"

The web is just another computing paradigm with its own strengths and weaknesses. It's not the be all and end all of mobile.

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Re:The mobile app is going the way of the CD-ROM: To the dus... by comedian on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @09:23PM (#3218571)
no it was not. hence the need for "mobile" versions of websites and various hacks to make the web work on mobile devices.
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Re:The mobile app is going the way of the CD-ROM: To the dus... by bphogan on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @10:50PM (#3218787)
that's not the web's fault... that's the fault of most developers doing the web wrong, refusing to separate content from presentation.

If mobile users only need service-type apps, the web can provide that. Programmers just have to write the screens.

The Web is a dumb terminal. You fill in a form, press XMIT or the equivalent, and get the next screen. Just because someone decided that the content needs to be jammed in a 900px table cell doesn't mean the web can't do mobile too.

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Re:The mobile app is going the way of the CD-ROM: To the dus... by Groxx on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @09:27PM (#3218580)
How does that follow? That's saying that the mobile clients don't implement everything, not that http isn't agnostic.
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Re:The mobile app is going the way of the CD-ROM: To the dus... by InclinedPlane on Thursday November 10, 2011 @01:09AM (#3219140)
So? The web was not designed for video. It wasn't designed for dynamic interactivity either or applications at all, actually. Yet here we are.
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