Kris Kumar
11-21-2005, 04:30 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.opera.com/products/mobile/platform/' target='_blank'>http://www.opera.com/products/mobile/platform/</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Using state-of-the-art Web technologies, Opera Platform™ is a powerful and flexible application framework for mobile phones. With Opera Platform™ you can quickly and affordably create advanced mobile Web applications that give users instant access to online resources such as news headlines, weather forecasts, e-mails, sports results, auction bidding status, or bus schedules. Opera Platform™ enables you to integrate the phone’s local applications with online content ranging from regular Web sites to advanced business support systems. Examples can include integrating the phone’s calendar, contact list and SMS/e-mail with your company’s CRM software or reporting systems."</i><br /><br /> <img src="http://www.smartphonethoughts.com/images/Kris-Nov05-ajaxopera.jpg" alt="User submitted image" title="User submitted image"/> <br /><br />AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. It enables interactive web applications. Google Reader, GMail and Windows Live are some well known examples of sites that use AJAX to enhance the user experience. If you have used the above sites, you must have noticed that the sites are able to dynamically update a section of the web page instead of refreshing the whole page. That is AJAX programming at work. 8) This functionality is very important and the most practical choice for mobile phone browser applications. Mobile phones have limited bandwidth and selectively downloading content would seem like the obvious thing to have in a mobile browser application. Thanks to Opera, it will now become a reality. Opera has released a <a href="http://my.opera.com/community/mobile/sdk/index.dml">software development kit</a> to enable web applications to take advantage of AJAX. According to the Opera website the Windows Mobile version will be released later. :-(