What are some of the characteristics that future mobile browsers must exhibit to make Mobile Web rich, highly-interactive, and able to fully exploit the handsets capabilities?
AJAX all by itself is not sufficient to deliver or maximize the mobile user experience. In addition to AJAX, future mobile browsers must support the following: • Provide full support to WICD Mobile specification — see “What is WICD” above. • Must provide access to native functionality via scripting (JavaScript), such as camera, messaging, Bluetooth, location, and other APIs that currently are available natively or via Java, and which will make the Mobile Web application rich. With this, there will be security and privacy implications that must be appropriately handled; will this translate to signed mobile web applications? • Support for disconnected or offline browsing (cache), allowing the Mobile Web application operate as an occasionally connected application.
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