In this panel, several interesting points were brought up about mobile internet surfing. Using our mobile phones, we can either surf web information through an app or a browser.
But which one will prevail? I don’t think there’s an answer to that but both Yu and Sullivan gave some interesting points which could help you form your own opinion. Catch my live notes:
11.45am: The panelists are up on the stage
- Moderator: Richard Robinson, Co-founder & President, Youlu
- YU Yongfu, Chairman & CEO, UCWeb
- Jay Sullivan, Vice President of Products, Mozilla
11.45am: Yu said that mobile internet is definitely the future as he points out that people across China (farmers or city people alike) are using it. He also used Indonesia’s rapid mobile development as a good example that mobile internet is the future. Yu also explained that as mobile internet becomes more affordable in China, it also encourages more users in the country.
11.50am: Sullivan brought up the topic on user interface and user benefit on the web. It includes links, interactive content which aren’t quite available in mobile applications. He feels that the future is very much how we take the best of web and app to create a better mobile Internet surfing experience.
11.52am: Yu said that web browser is considered the largest application. App or browser, cloud computing is the one that drives both interface. Talking about app and browser, Sullivan said that it is not possible to have an app to represent every link/webpage. He also echoed that cloud is everything now, stating an example that he rather create a powerpoint deck on the web than building it on his computer.
11.58am: Now on to the topic of HTML 5 and Flash. Which should we support? Yu said that Flash is much faster than HTML 5 but Flash takes some time to get adopted on mobile platform. But he sees both HTML5 and Flash gaining steam simultaneously in the next three years. Sullivan said that choosing between HTML5 or Flash depends on the developer’s goal. For example, location-based and social graph are all going into HTML 5. He also brought up that Zynga’s game is build more on the social graph (Facebook) rather than the browser.
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