I was wondering why there is a need for a separate tool for writing mobile applications, which comes with a separate set of controls. Since the Mobile Internet Toolkit is so much ASP.NET alike, why wasn’t just possible to enhance the existing ASP.NET server controls to take care of generating the appropriate output for mobile devices? They sniff the browser to target its capabilities anyway. If this was done, we don't have to create two set of the same pages – one for uplevel browsers, the other for mobile devices. Perhaps there was a sound reason for separating them, such as the fact that ASP.NET pages are usually much reacher in content.
Can we expect in the future ASP.NET and Mobile Internet Tookit to merge? You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
