Mobile Vs PC Web

The Register has used a review of Opera’s new Mini service to go on a bit of a rant about the difference between the mobile web and the PC web.
“It’s all about peripheral vision: with bigger desktop displays, today’s websites are increasingly designed for big screens, and naturally designers want to use those displays to the full…The Mobile Web is possible, it’s just not very or convenient or rewarding…But there’s no reason for there to be “one web”, any more than any road vehicle has to have four seats, or four wheels. Unfortunately, the last people who’ll admit that the mobile and desktop world’s may be diverging are today’s web designers, who have a bit of the Jacobin zeal about their historical destiny. The kind of pride which usually precedes a mighty fall.”
The problem is that people want to be able to access any web page on their mobile, but relatively few pages are going to be optimized for mobile phones — at least for the foreseeable future.

Comments have been disabled for this post