03-05-2010, 12:37 AM
Harbourmaster wrote:
This is just some grandstanding and pandering to The Leader...
A simple htaccess script can (and should) redirect any "smart phone" traffic to a dedicated .mobi le website that is tailored to mobile users...
Yeah, that made sense when smartphones were only capable of viewing a "mobile web" baby-fied version of the internet. Since the introduction of the iPhone, and other more dynamic, computer-like smart phones, viewing content that's been specially tailored into cute little "mobi" pages is less acceptable to users who have come to expect more. Many are already used to viewing the same world wide web on their iPhones as they do on their laptops.
It's unfortunate that current generation of super-powerful laptop and desktop computers can be brought to their KNEES simply by viewing a few web pages. There's no excuse for a web page to hog 85% of an insanely powerful CPU's resources. Smaller computing devices only highlight what is already an annoying and unnecessary problem, bad web design, and increasing over-dependence on resource-hogging graphic baloney. I hope it gets fixed.