Wireless networking's hurdles

摘要

Wireless and mobility are fast-moving, fast-changing areas for enterprise IT. There are 1,001 problems, headaches, glitches and bugs all the time. But don't lose sight of the Big Picture. Here's our attempt to answer three of the most burning questions.rn1. Are mobile Web apps ever going to grow up? In just the past year, several trends have crystallized into a mobile Web platform that promises to transform mobile application development for the enterprise.rnToday's powerful mobile browsers, many based on the open source Webkit engine, are able to host a new breed of mobile Web applications, of which Google's major revision ofrnGmail for mobile, released earlier this year, is a good example. These applications can be stored locally, along with user and other data, run inside the browser and even work without an Internet connection. Written in JavaScript, these applications can run up to five times faster than they could a year ago, due to a new generation of powerful JavaScript engines.