James Pearce

nteroperability is currently the hottest topic in the wireless application space, and rightly so: many of the early promises and exciting ambitions of the industry have been frustrated by reality. More and more developers are realizing that the true challenge of deployment is in making applications work - and work well - across the wide range of devices and gateway platforms available. M - The Devices The challenge of adapting applications for different client devices is an obvious one. Wireless devices have a wide variation in characteristics: Physical (such as screen sizes, navigation keys) Cosmetic (such as browser image and formatting support) Usability (navigation mapings, input mechanism) Compliance (protocol version, optional standards supported, proprietary extensions) Add to these the fact that many devices still feature immature browser software, and that ... (more)