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Next issue on the list is the fact that plug-ins in general are not supported by mo-
bile devices. A trend that first began with Apples iPhone and iPad and has now been
adopted by both Google's and Android Microsoft's Windows Phone. This means that
Webble World is completely shut out from these devices. Back in 2007 when devel-
opment began and Silverlight was new, there basically were no smart phones, so it
was hard to foresee this problem, but now it is obvious that it is there and it is not
going away. It actually means that plug-ins in general will probably fade away as a
valid use of web solution since the mobile market is basically dominating the sales
nowadays.
Last but definitely not least is the strong feeling and persistent rumors that Micro-
soft will turn their back to their own creation for greener pastures, namely HTML5,
and in the future only use Silverlight as framework for creating user interfaces for
their Windows OS technologies. (Both Windows 8 and Windows-phone use Silver-
light for their interfaces, but that is completely disconnected from the web browser
plug-in solution).
So what conclusion does this daunting list of problems emerge to? Only the most
obvious one, That the next generation of Webble World will not use Silverlight as its
technology base. But the current do, and it does so extremely well, both on Mac OS
and on Windows inside most common browsers.
Webble World, as of today, early 2013, rests on Silverlight, but the concepts, ideas
and solutions of this system and the theories behind regarding meme media does not.
One can fully enjoy Webble World already today and create multiple forms of rich
Internet applications, and when the day comes and the Silverlight plug in is no longer
required, those same Webbles will in most cases load as good as ever, and in some
rare cases still work fine if Silverlight is available on the machine running this new
version.
Webble World may come in many shapes and forms until the end of time, and this
platform will evolve and mutate alongside the Webbles it is hosting, but still they will
be Webbles and as Webbles they will prevail.
3
Webble World
Finally we have arrived to what matters, the actual platform environment Webble
World and its inhabitants, the Webbles. It is time to understand their greatness and
how to utilize and harvest their fruits both as a hard core programmer and primitive
Webble developer but even more important as an ordinary non-programming web
user that just have a need or an idea waiting to be realized.
3.1
A Webble in Theory
The concept of the Webble is simple enough where keywords like availability,
customizable, editable, redistribution, combinable and configurable are supposed to
describe its existence. A Webble can, depending on its developers intentions carry
