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This article rubbed me the wrong way. Mostly because it was about how folks (like the W3C) are trying to keep the PC-friendly Web separate from the Web as seen from a phone.
Yes, form factors have to be considered. But, let’s stop stressing how we need to get he WHOLE Web onto a phone and start talking about what Web we need on a phone, what Web is relevant to phones.
Link: The End User: Internet for the small screen – Print Version – International Herald Tribune.
The mobile Internet – or, the World Wide Web that you can get on your cellphone or handheld device – has had an incredibly lengthy and labored gestation. Around the turn of the century, it was widely heralded by the telecommunications industry, only to be widely derided by consumers for being slow, cumbersome and generally useless.
