The Way the .mobi Died
As we all know this did not work. I hope this will and the sanity prevails.
Increasingly, you can browse the real web on a phone and have a high quality experience. There is less and less need for a special dumbed down version of the web just for mobile devices; instead we can have a single device-independent web that’s presented in the best possible way on a variety of devices.
I like how Apple solves problems by turning them upside-down. Or maybe just by choosing the right problem to solve.
January 11th, 2007 at 12:42
Though the iPhone is great, I see a problem with the web page zooming feature. When you get closer to the text (so it is readable), you only see some limited area of the page. When the paragraphs are wide and the text lines are long, you’ll need to scroll horizontally in order to read the content. And even worse - you’ll need to scroll back in order to get to the begining of the next line :)
I get this all the time on my native SE browser (which renders XHTML quite properly, byt the way). And that is the main reason I use Opera mini (and the bandwidth consumption is the other reason, naturally :)
just my .02
January 11th, 2007 at 19:34
If I got it right this only becomes a problem for extremely wide content. Text columns in fixed width layouts are typically about 400-600px. iPhone’s screen is 480px wide (landscape orientation) so you will be able to read this blog without downscaling - content column is 450px wide. Given that at 50% zoom text is still readable you should be able to deal even insanely long lines.
January 12th, 2007 at 19:43
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A quick word of introduction: I’m James Pearce, the new dotMobi CTO. I’ve been working with the mobile web for over seven years now, and I’m excited about this. 2007 feels like it really could be the year that the…
January 13th, 2007 at 06:43
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