Foreword

When I was first introduced to a predecessor of Oracle Application Express (APEX) in 2001, building web applications for mobile devices wasn’t something that many businesses were actively pursuing or even considering. At best, there were some efforts under way to make information available on mobile devices through protocols like WAP (Wireless Access Protocol) using languages like WML (Wireless Markup Language). And for most companies, even the idea of running their business applications using a desktop web browser was still fairly new. Companies that did make the jump to browser-based applications had to contend with different browsers and a general lack of support for web standards. With Internet Explorer 6 introduced that same year, ...

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