Joomla must go Mobile 100%

[aalfouzan]

It's no brainer to conclude that the whole world is going mobile. So, we'll come to a point where websites as we know will no longer be of any importance, other than probably hosting the data of the mobile app/site. Actually we are already at this point.

The visitors rate of my sites is approx 3-5 per day, whereas of the same sites on mobile web apps is approx 200-350 per day. What a huge difference!

The current web app service providers did a good job in simply making a website's layout mobile friendly, but these web apps have a limit. You can only create informative mobile sites with, transferring the data from your site mainly as is with different layout and nothing more. So, basically a website/mobile app developer can't create interactive apps to have members login, access and publish data neither from/with Joomla's core components nor 3rd party's extensions.

Therefore, I believe to maintain success as a CMS, further step ahead of others and have a recognized landmark, the next version of Joomla should be 100% mobile ready. Extension developers should further follow the same step to keep up with the mobile revolution, which until now all CMS's are lagging behind, including 3rd party's extension developers. Regarding the latter, I'm surprised that major commercial extensions such as JomSocial have failed until now to make it mobile accessible. What are they doing with all that money.

Being 100% mobile ready means enabling full connection and access to the site's database by the mobile app that is connected to the site. Enabling such connection directly and simply through Joomla itself, rather than having to create ajax scripts and going through other coding requirements to achieve this purpose, which many, including myself, lack knowledge at.

Cheers.

[brian]

Joomla 3 is mobile. Have you actually tried it. I can't comment on jomsocial as that is an independent extension and you would be better to ask them if they support mobile

[un10cked]

I am happy to pay extra for an extention that supports mobile platforms...

[Milkoviz]

Joomla 3 is mobile. Have you actually tried it. I can't comment on jomsocial as that is an independent extension and you would be better to ask them if they support mobile

Agreed. Joomla 3 works well in mobile. It's the extensions that may cause problems.