There was a day when Web development was in a sad state of affairs. The majority of developers laughed at JavaScript, and were focusing on a killer new server-side web framework, or a new ORM library. The consensus was that that browser was dumb. The modern TN3270 if you will.

A few renegades were actually building fantastic dhtml experiences. We could look up to Erik and Arv, and the many others who pushed the boundaries.

We were giving some talks on “Building killer web sites with dhtml” and we enjoyed surprisingly people with what was available, but the majority still didn’t care. Then Ajax came along and the revolution started. Finally, we could get back to thinking about the user interface and general usability of Web based applications. We could care about the user again!

That is all fine and good, but why are we talking about Ajax on devphone.com? The reason is that we finally feel that the time has come for mobile phones to be the major device that users have for accessing their data and getting things done. You only have to travel around the world to see that already happening. Now, with the iPhone, a decent Java system, and more, we see the toolkits that will allow developers to build fantastic applications on the phone.

At devphone.com, we want to be part of that community, and highlight the great work that is being done. You should expect relevant news, and exclusive content such as video interviews.

If you see any news that relates to this area, we would love for you to let us know!. I am sure that some of you are doing great things on the phone, so ping us!

What does mobile development mean to us? Let’s use some examples:

• News on SDKs for various phone platforms (e.g. iPhone SDK, New J2ME updates (and more importantly the Savaje stuff))
• News on new devices with respect to development. This would be in the SAT exam: devphone is to engadget as ajaxian is to TechCrunch. If you look at a new Web 2.0 related product release, you would see TechCrunch talking what this means wrt startups but Ajaxian will talk about how rounded the corners are, and whether it uses Prototype or jQuery or Dojo or …
• Anything that we think that phone developers will think important. We do this on Ajaxian when we post about interesting CSS hacks and such.

NOTE: Some of the editors work for Google, and even Android itself. We believe that we will be able to give a fair depiction of the news, but we also feel that you should know all of the facts so you can use your own judgment.