Thread: BBC News iPhone apps now available - what about Maemo?
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attila77 is offline attila77
2010-07-23 , 16:41
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Originally Posted by ysss View Post
I don't understand the part about 'meego html5 site'. Why would it need to be compartmentalized by platform?
Because there is no guarantee that an iPhone-oriented HTML5 site will render equally well on MeeGo (note that under MeeGo I don't necessarily mean just handhelds). Add to this the dance around Flash, WebM/H264 and it's Internet Explorer all over again.

As for different form factors, I think there are real merits for that.
Certainly, but it's a step back. It has been a long and arduous fight (and not even completely over) to get the web to be resolution/aspect/DPI independent. Instead of truly addressing the problem of new form factors, we are simply discarding what has been learned with the web and going back to square 1, brute forcing the problem with specialized versions - a path that cannot be pushed on the long term.
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