A Cure for the Handheld Web User Blues?

September 23, 2006

I am constantly using the web browser on my Treo 700p. I am also constantly frustrated at how much more usable it could be. I actually miss the PQA days, when I could get a native palm app that just used the web for its data. Today I stumbled upon Ajit Jaokar’s post about using Ajax for SoonR mobile:

This week, SoonR launched the first true Mobile Ajax application. Based on the Opera platform, SoonR’s service truly leverages the power of Mobile Ajax.

Wow. Mobile browser support of Ajax could result in a boom in usage. Why? Because developing mobile applications today has two big barriers:

  1. You have to support multiple platforms
  2. You have to know ‘higher level” development languages to produce the application

Ajax on the mobile browser removes both of these, and could unleash the web-developer community onto the handheld app market. That could be exciting.

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