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Developing Mobile Web Applications

Smart device applications provide many opportunities for developers to utilize their desktop-application skills in the world of devices. However, a key limitation in smart device application development is that the application needs to be installed on the device to be used. Mobile Web applications, on the other hand, utilize the included microbrowser in mobile phones and wirelessly connected PDA devices as the application delivery model. In a lot of ways, Mobile Web applications bring out the benefits to devices that the thin-client computing model initiated by Web applications did to desktop computing.

A question to ask at this point is, because the mobile Web application model relies on the browser model, ...