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Mobile web development just got easier

Nokia have released a few new plugins that let web developers quickly extend web content to mobile devices.

This being a Nokia initiative means that the plugins help create content for some of the most popular S60 devices on the market. Initially this covers S60 3rd edition FP2 phones which provides a very comprehensive baseline for compatibility across Nokia, Samsung, Lenovo and LG devices.

So why is this helpful?

Developing mobile content or mobile applications is not always straight forward. At least it is not as straight forward as web content. It might sound like an obvious thing to say but you might also think that because mobile web content tends to be less comprehensive or complicated in layout that it should be easier to do. Not so. Given the lack of consistency in browsers and network/carrier compatibility it makes developing mobile content and mobile applications a time consuming process.

Having access to plugins that streamline this development process can only be a good thing. If they do deliver on improvements in compatibility and development efficiency we stand a chance of bringing mobile content into the main stream. Something that I don’t believe has happen just yet due to the interaction limitations that most mobile web browsers have places on developers in the past.

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