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December 05, 2005
HTML experts & Japan mobile
HTML experts & Japan mobile: Andreas Bovens offers a long paper here, about the history of the "spec-first" approach (VRML, HTML, SVG etc) and how it's faring in the vibrant mobile development scene in Japan. The essay is written in expository style... many pages detailing history before getting to the essay's main theme... there's some interesting stuff in there, though, on how the little mobile browsers handled all the features added to their big desktop cousins. There's no first-paragraph summary, so I may have pulled out the wrong emphasis, but these lines jumped out at me: "Hence, I will propose an alternative approach—a new direction Japanese web development should take... I argue that Japanese web developers should make the leap to web standards." Lots of use of the word "should" throughout the piece. (I lean towards simpler, stabler requirements... I like how the original HTML could be learned in an afternoon.) [via WebGraphics]
Posted by John Dowdell at December 5, 2005 02:25 PM
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