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pavel_lishin | karma 46523 | avg karma 3.63 · 2011-11-10 02:00:55+00:00

A mobile device is just another client. The web was designed to be agnostic in that regard, was it not?

comedian | karma -8 | avg karma -0.29 · 2011-11-10 02:23:20+00:00

no it was not. hence the need for "mobile" versions of websites and various hacks to make the web work on mobile devices.

Groxx | karma 17784 | avg karma 2.5 · 2011-11-09 20:27:22

How does that follow? That's saying that the mobile clients don't implement everything, not that http isn't agnostic.

bphogan | karma 2970 | avg karma 4.2 · 2011-11-09 21:50:35

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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comedian | karma -8 | avg karma -0.29 · 2011-11-09 20:35:04

"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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