Unleashing information applications to a profound audience are proposed via the popular mobile device and de facto Web technologies. Incompatible Application Program Interfaces (API) such as WAP are criticised in favour of unifying application development on the Web API with every device supporting a capable Web user agent. The consequences of using separate APIs for differing devices are found to result in complex and costly device dependent information applications. Different Web engineering methodologies for mobiles are evaluated, with recommendations for a device independent approach in the long term and UA support via device dependent proxies in the short term. Further research is suggested with an emphasis on the need for a scalable bitmap image format.
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