Mobile AJAX

January 18, 2008

Until now, I would swear that the only mobile device AJAX was available was in the iPhone. Well, I now know how to use the XHR activeX object in Pocket IE and it gets better: There is a library for working with the AJAX capabilities of mobile browsers. Frost AJAX lib (via Celso) is a really nice project that I will use when developing my next web application.

I really hate when I go to some website that is only meant to use with desktop browsers. Sure webdesigns should have fluid layouts and AJAX should be hiJAXed, but I believe sometimes the best solution is to make a mobile-specific website. Like m.twitter.com or GMail/GReader. Sometimes users in different devices have different needs so they should get different contents.

But yes, Javascript and AJAX is the future for Mobile also. The iPhone is a good example of that!

Tagged with: en, mobile, webdesign, javascript
This post has 2 comments. Feel free to read them and leave your own.

lmjabreu
Opera Mobile has great support for AJAX since it uses the same rendering engine as Opera 8.65 for Desktop(upcoming: 9.5), it even manages to handle Passpack's login authentication and interface, very sluggishly due to the intensive use of AJAX, but it does.

"Sometimes users in different devices have different needs so they should get different contents."

\m/

lmjabreu
cof cof 'relatively great' lol, not as good as Desktop browsers and Safari Mobile.

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