Comments on: Browsers vs. native apps: Vic Gundotra’s comments – Ecosystems, HTML5 and Long tail .. http://www.opengardensblog.futuretext.com/archives/2009/07/browsers_vs_nat.html Wireless mobility - Innovation - Digital convergence - mobile web 2.0 Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Peter Cranstone http://www.opengardensblog.futuretext.com/archives/2009/07/browsers_vs_nat.html/comment-page-1#comment-1857 Peter Cranstone Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:30:32 +0000 http://dev5.indigocontenthost.co.uk/archives/2009/07/browsers_vs_nat.html#comment-1857 Device discovery is quite straightforward. You simply have the device transmit the information as part of the HTTP request being made to the web server. HTML 5 has some advantages but is not fully supported on all the mobile browsers and is certainly not backwards compatible with existing mobile browsers. There are free solutions out there that solve this problem and will support HTML5. BTW Vic is correct - the future is mobile web apps in the browser. The sticky question is how. Device discovery is quite straightforward. You simply have the device transmit the information as part of the HTTP request being made to the web server.
HTML 5 has some advantages but is not fully supported on all the mobile browsers and is certainly not backwards compatible with existing mobile browsers.
There are free solutions out there that solve this problem and will support HTML5.
BTW Vic is correct – the future is mobile web apps in the browser. The sticky question is how.

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