Strange as it seems, there is a way to develop applications for mobile devices, where a) most of the code is portable across different platforms; b) based on open standards; c) most of the logic is written with an interpreted language. It's called 'web apps'.

Yet more strange is seeing the mobile world 'leapfrogging' the desktop in this respect. Every OS has had the choice of adopting a similar technology as a fully-supported way to write applications.

Web apps are, as the name says, based on "Web" technologies: Javascript, HTML, CSS. Read more about them in this new article.