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Article Excerpt
The explosive growth of Internet-enabled gadgets has caused a major problem: the current Web infrastructure is simply not ready for them.
The Web has (some) beautiful HTML pages that are at best ugly on microbrowsers ... when they can be viewed at all. Most Web servers don't recognize these gadgets or what they can do; they don't know how to share rich, graphic content with them. Those that work rely on the gadget (or worse, its user) to memorize new Web addresses that point to specially built pages intended for viewing on that particular device. Your elaborate Web application doesn't work on the thousands of new gadgets your customers want to use to interact with you. New pages with a sliver of the original content and functionality you just finished building are required. It's actually worse than that: you need new pages for each family of devices--the phones, the pagers, the PDAs, and whatever comes next.
When configured properly, Web servers really do know how to recognize gadgets and send them appropriate data, but the gadgets often mislead Web servers about who and what they are, causing problems. Many use nonstandard (and poorly documented) data.' Only very specialized, and hence limited, applications can work with these constraints. New applications need to support all manner of different client devices, from WAP browsers and RIM pagers to...
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