Today I was reading about the fact that people are obviously going to want better ‘viewabilty’ of their favorite Web sites on mobile devices. This got me to thinking about the bigger question.

Should this become the Web Devs responsibility? I mean, should all blame or credit be placed in the hands of the world’s Web developers? I am not totally convinced myself. I believe that it should be a cooperative effort among the Web Devs and browser developers on a grand scale.

When I was yammering on during the mobile web panel at Web 2.0, I said something that I hadn’t prepared for in advance: the bulk of the content out on the internet is in web format. It was a sort of obvious truth that popped into my head while on stage. Now, when I say “web”, you know what I saying right? I’m generally thinking HTML over HTTP and though you could probably say there’s a lot of “dark content” out there on the internet - like in email, etc. it’s generally not publicly accessible. The web in 2004 is the lingua franca of internet based information, I don’t think there’s much argument on this…

That may be the last bit where there’s no argument actually, because as soon as you start talking about the Mobile Web, you get tons of opinions and theories. The first question is simply: Do people even *want* to get at the entire web with their mobile device? If you talked to the four guys on stage at Web 2.0 they’d all give you different answers. One person would talk about reformatting content, another would talk about creating a whole new type of information stream, another would discount phones all together and point to a device with bigger screens, more memory etc. Before you can even get to the how’s of the mobile web, people can’t even agree if it’s a good idea in the first place.