W3C announced the publication of a report on the Workshop on Mobile
Ajax co-sponsored by W3C and the OpenAjax Alliance. The report was
written by the Jon Ferraiolo and reviewed by Daniel Appelquist (the
two co-chairs for the workshop). Among areas the Workshop identified
as needing attention are JavaScript access to device APIs, offline/
disconnected operation, widgets, mashups and security. The Workshop
was held in Mountain View, CA, USA, hosted by Microsoft. Some of the
position papers called for new standards efforts across a spectrum
of topics. Implicit in these proposals is the general notion that if
the industry can agree on key standards, then the industry would be
unleashed to pursue major innovations due to cost efficiencies achieved
due to unification of the delivery platform. The attendees listed many
candidates for standards activities: local caching, smart caching,
APIs to device capabilities, key mapping, security, mashups, microformats
for PIM information, server push, DOM extensions for mobile, CSS
extensions for mobile, and best practices. Bennett Marks (Nokia)
announced that OMA browser 2.4 include XHR and will be the last browser
standard they will develop. OMA has concluded that full browsers will
be sufficiently ubiquitous soon enough, so it does not make sense to
do further updates of the OMA mobile browser subset standards. However,
standards take years to develop and the marketplace is moving quickly.
There was general agreement that standards activities are not good
places for invention and sometimes better when attempting standards to
achieve market consolidation. More Information See also the W3C news item Click Here
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