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01.09.07
The Mobile Chaos Continues...
 By Philipp Lenssen
Today, Google announced another mobile partnership (this time with Samsung), and Yahoo released Yahoo Go 2.0 (this is not long after Ask released their mobile search, which didn't include a search box).
Yahoo Go will simply tell me that my phone is not supported when I try to access it with Internet Explorer on Windows Mobile 5.0. Indeed, the mobile platform is kind of confusing these days.
Years ago we had WML, and everyone scratched their head why people weren't just reusing HTML, which is a (theoretically) platform-neutral language. Today, most mobile browsers do indeed understand any kind of (X)HTML - and not just stuff like XHTML Mobile Doctype, another redundant invention - but many web apps are moving in the direction of inaccessible DHTML (dynamic HTML, or more commonly called AJAX-applications now), giving mobile browsers a hard time.
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Developers who created a non-accessible DHTML site are left with two basic choices; program a secondary "static HTML" version of their site (takes work), or program a mobile application (also takes work, especially because technologies like Java MIDlets won't work as cross-platform as they're supposed to). Or, if you're a big company - like Google - you do both, and offer e.g. Gmail as a mobile version and a mobile application (that's additional to a "basic HTML" version actually, meaning there's 4 flavors of Gmail).
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About the Author:
Philipp Lenssen from Germany, author of 55 Ways to Have Fun With Google, shares his views & news on the search industry in the daily Google Blogoscoped.
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