What Will Be PHP for Mobile Devices?
June 1st, 2009
PHP (and later Ruby on Rails) made it really easy to build simple applications for the web. What’s going to fill that role for mobile devices? One intriguing possibility is Phone Gap: it’s open source, it’s based on Javascript (which everyone has to learn these days anyway, whether they like it or not), and it (mostly) works right now.
Interesting piece. However, I don’t have too much confidence in “php for mobile devices” at this point. A large part of getting the best app out for mobile devices is the user experience, and the lack of standards and creativity from millions of manufacturers necessitate lots of efforts spent in tailoring the app for particular models.
A difference between mobile apps and web apps is there is a unique standard (for user interaction: browser) for web apps, and certain things don’t exist for mobile devices yet.