WAP to HTML5: Mobile web - past, present, and future

The mobile web browsing experiences have been changed rapidly in these days. It was not even 5 years ago when we browsed a tiny web pages called WAP sites with "candybar" feature phones, or Sidekick. Today, we browse web pages, even fully-functional web applications with a fingertip on a touch-screen.

So what has been changed in the dev world in such a short amount of time? What are we learning from past and where are we going now?

The topic will cover:

  • How the mobile development has changed from WML, XHTML-MP, HTML4 and finally HTML5 with CSS3
  • Legacy to HTML5: input attributes
  • Dealing with smarter phones: Viewport and Media-queries
  • High DPI display: CSS pixel != Device pixel
  • Hardware access with Device API