Mobile ASP.NET Web Applications

 

Challenges of Mobile Web Devices

• Various markup languages required
  •  HTML for PDAs
  • WML (wireless markup language ) for WAP (wireless application protocol) cell phones
  • cHTML (compact HTML) for Japanese i-mode phones
• Various form factors
  • Horizontal/vertical screen orientation
  • Varying numbers of display lines permitted
  • Color or black & white displays
• Various network connectivity
  • From 9.6 KB cellular connections to 11 MB Wireless LANs.
• Various capabilities
  • Display images
  • Make phone calls
  • Receive notification messages

Web Matrix

• Provides the tools you need to quickly develop mobile Web applications
• Works for a wide variety of mobile browsers available today
  • Reduces the challenge of writing and maintaining numerous web-applications for specific browsers