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Morten Hjerde has posted a discussion on application postures, and what software developers can and can not do with them. Since I was planning on writing about this, you might go there so I don’t have to. Besides, he used more pictures than I would have.

Applications don’t have take up the whole screen, but the few that do this can bump into each other because it’s essentially a hack.

One of Morten’s points is that the current batch of tools doesn’t enable us to do the right thing for a particular task or application we want to develop. Instead, almost everything has to be sovereign posture. This is bad: a task that the user wants to peripherally monitor, such as weather alerts, has to take over the entire screen.

We are hoping that widget technologies such as Nokia’s web runtime engine will help us move to a richer, and more appropriate, user experience.