small screen apps often do away with statelessness (one of the basic ideas in the standard windows/icons/menu/pointer world) to organize things in different mod

small screen apps often do away with statelessness (one of the basic ideas in the standard windows/icons/menu/pointer world) to organize things in different modes/screens. And there are means for web apps to manage the browser history by setting and querying the hash part of the window's URL. Most Maemo apps work with a back button in this way (despite not being browser-based). Hiding the address bar still seems to be a good idea, as you only need it when things get broken...