Sarin on “Internet On Your Mobile” - Flaw
The point Sarin made about “the new-new thing is internet on the mobile” struck me as flawed. I am apposed the the one web principle. Mobile needs to be considered as a seperate entity to the internet. Just like newspapers, television and radio are for delivery services to the user. The Web has been implemented for computers. Sure, certain aspects of the Web wil benefit Mobile, but to simply say, “Internet on mobile” is not a good message to be sending to developers.
Designing a “one web” will lead to various problems:
- Developers making sacrifices in innovation in order to achieve compatibility.
- Developers relying on transcoding tools to take their web site and make it mobile
Both of these problems will lead to poor user experience, and not show the user the true potential of the MOBILE WEB.
Mobiles are designed to be mobile and in your pocket, Computers are designed to be on your desk and at home or office.
When will the industry wake up to these facts, and encourage companies to do more about promotion of innovation. Don’t take your website, and translate to mobile, think out of the box, and see how the meanings of the word mobile can translate to benefit to your company, and the solution that you are offering.
-Olaf-
Good points Olaf. There are great technologies out there that tuck the device complexity up, allow solution developers embrace this variety and let the users be whoever they want to be. We shouldn’t need to be boxing people into the same thing everywhere. I do however think that there is some difference opinions in what one web means. Some people see it as the transcoding world and other’s see it as an optimised environment that adapts to the context. Either way I prefer not to use the term one web and instead to use terms like contextual or mobile 2.0 which I believe embraces your vision.
I doubt there has ever been a term that has caused more confusion than “One Web”. It implies something totally different to what the One Web ideal really stands for.
In fact the original One Web ideal does indeed embrace everything you believe Olaf, but it seems to have been hijacked into One Web==Transcoding. It might have helped if the W3C had been a bit more clear in presenting this ideal in the first place. Ian is probably right, a change in terminology might help.
http://www.littlespringsdesign.com/blog/2008/01/24/one-web-and-other-defintions/
http://dev.mobi/node/705
http://dev.mobi/node/744