Mobil Experience Meeting
Bent Flyen
Senior Project Manager
Opera Consumer Engineering
bent@opera.com
Transit Information on the mobile
HTML
Street HTML: The normal web page, with frames, AJAX
and JavaScripts
Requires a Desktop PC or a Smartphone
Short time to load on good connection
Frames and Ajax will not work on mobile
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XHTML
HTML according to a strict format (not street HTML)
Can be understood by advanced mobile phones with a
modern browser (Opera, Nokia KHTML, Pocket
Internet Explorer
Can use graphics to make a better user experience
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WML/WAP
Wireless Markup Language: A strict XML document
format for mobile phones
Works in Opera (Mobile/Mini/Desktop) and Nokias
Kimmono browsers (“Services” on most Nokia S60
phones)
Support input limitations in forms
Does not work in
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Safari
Internet Explorer
Firefox
Nokia KHTML
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WAP: Wireless Application Protocol
WAP: can be the bearer of WML
More common to use HTTP (Hypertext Transfer
Protocol)
<card id="Welcome" title="Trafikanten">
<p>
<small>
Show trip <br/>
<b>
</card>
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J2ME: Java Platform, Micro Edition
Light client to be run on most mobile phones
 Opera Mini
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Ajax: Asynchronous JavaScript and
XML.
Used to improve usability on web sites
Will mostly work in the latest version of desktop
browsers
Can be adopted to mobile browsing
Will not work in Opera Mini
Examples:
 Autocomplete when typing
 Navigation in maps
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Widgets: small program for a specific
purpose
Based on Ajax and web standards
Will be launched on iPhone
Nokia KHTML will support widgets from this fall
Opera announced mobile widgets in February
A widgets will remember stations without the use of
bookmarks
Desktop:
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Yahoo widgets (Windows & Mac)
Google Gadgets
Vista Gadgets
Opera Widgets
Apple Dashboard
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Demo
Opera Mini
Nokia browser (“Kimmono”)
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