Open Web standards on mobile devices

Over the Air 2010 at Imperial College
9th of September, 2010
kai@jil.org

1999

• WAP launched

2000

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble
• JAVA MIDP1
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-HTML and I-mode

2001

• XHTML becomes W3C CR
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WURFL

2002

2003

2004

• WHATWG

2005

• Content adaptation
• AJAX on mobile

2006

• Widget landscape
• W3C supports work on Widget specification

2007

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iphone
• Android announced

2008

• http://test.w3.org/m/
• http://jil.org/
• http://bondi.omtp.org/

2009

• Open widget standard ready
• W3C DAP

2010

Widget runtimes(WRTs):

1. Aplix
2. Borqs
3. Fraunhofer FOKUS mwr2010
4. LG
5. Microsoft
6. Obigo
7. Opera
8. RIM
9. Samsung

Aiming for Widget packaging compliance