The Future of Mobile

Web-designMay 2011

Orun Bhuiyan

audio track included

Before the iPhone, mobile devices weren’t very sophisticated and couldn’t surf the web in a user friendly fashion.

Then came the iPhone(and it’s app-centric model)

This meant more

usability, better web-

browsing and feature rich functionality

with apps

Blackberry and Andriod soon followed and created their own software development kits to encourage the creation of numerous apps.

With proprietary app development systems like these dominating the market, how are smaller mobile competitors to thrive?

=

HTML 5 means:

• A more robust & semantic web browsing experience.

• Videos and animations don’t need to rely on Flash.

• Less apps and more versatile web pages

<webkit>•iPhones, Android phones and now Blackberries

run WebKit to browse the web

•Most other smaller phone manufacturers do to

•Newer versions of Webkit support HTML5

•This means HTML5 is a serious threat to the app centric model.

•Smaller phone manufacturers and new entrants encourage HTML5 development wherever possible

It looks like

may win back the mobile environment!

Bad Mobile Sites

Good Mobile Sites

Thanks for Watching!

ReferencesAdams, B., (2011). "The Future of the Mobile Web"Telegraph.co.uk., http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/business/opinion/watching-web/the-future-of-the-mobile-web-16004990.html

Carter J., (2010). "HTML5 Mobile Web Development".O'Reilly Media., http://oreilly.com/catalog/0636920014225

Featherstone, D., (2010). "Interact with Web Standards"New Rider's Media: p 410.

Grigsby, J., (2009). "HTML5 from a Mobile Perspective".Cloud Four., http://www.cloudfour.com/html5-from-a-mobile-perspective/

Oshiro, D., (2010). "HTML5 is Great For Mobile, Developers Say".Read Write Web., http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/2010/01/html5-is-great-for-mobile.php