Sir Tim Bernes-Lee: Web Design Hampers Mobile Internet?
I totally agree with Sir Time Bernes-Lee's comment on the trend of web design and how it affects mobile internet (wap, i-mode, etc). (story here: Slashdot | Web Design Hampers Mobile Internet?). Without propoer automatic web page transformation, it is absolutely a pain in the neck to surf normal web pages on a smart phone per se.
Notice that researchers from Microsoft and othersare working hard to design schemes that allow page transformation (from desktop-centric web pages to QCIF phone/pda centric web pages using xhtml, cHTML, or old wml as in WAP). Their basic ideas are eliminating horizontal scrolling with a single column, and using levels of sub-pages for blocks for easy navigation.
My point is, whatever the future web page transformation will be, those flashes, ad-bars, pop-ups, floating windows, and bulky pictures should be removed from both desktop centric pages and mobile centric pages. As a side note, Firefox'a ad-block plug-in works very well on kicking out flashes. Floating windows are its next target.
Notice that researchers from Microsoft and othersare working hard to design schemes that allow page transformation (from desktop-centric web pages to QCIF phone/pda centric web pages using xhtml, cHTML, or old wml as in WAP). Their basic ideas are eliminating horizontal scrolling with a single column, and using levels of sub-pages for blocks for easy navigation.
My point is, whatever the future web page transformation will be, those flashes, ad-bars, pop-ups, floating windows, and bulky pictures should be removed from both desktop centric pages and mobile centric pages. As a side note, Firefox'a ad-block plug-in works very well on kicking out flashes. Floating windows are its next target.
posted by Pei Zheng at 9:31 AM
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