Today a fellow Conchango technology team member Pryank Rohilla (start blogging mate!) let me know about OpenAJAX alliance meeting up in California at the Microsoft's office to discuss how to bring common AJAX standards to mobile devices. (Link)
This is a good thing for me since Internet Explorer Mobile, aka PIE, on Windows Mobile 6 devices now contains sufficient AJAX support and has fixed the XMLHttpRequest memory leak which was a real issue on previous versions.
With the Apple iPhone and other telco's, like Vodafone, pushing the consumer view into Mobile web this is a good thing for building mobile websites.
I disagree with the above article where it says it feels this will confuse and they doubt it will be the best tool for the job! Just say that to Microsoft, Apple, Google, IBM and David Cameron's favorite, Facebook.
AJAX is here to stay and it IS coming to Mobile devices. It's a good thing that we have a body that is setting standards and the big boys are taking notice.
Want to do some AJAX on WinMo? - Check out this as a starter...