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lavery writes "According to the New York Times, technology and telecommunication companies have proposed a new domain name, specifically for mobile devices.
In a sign that the wireless Internet is coming of age, Nokia, Vodafone, Microsoft and six other technology and telecommunications companies joined Wednesday to propose the equivalent of a .mobile Internet address category for mobile Web access.
"If you went onto a .mobile site, that site would be specifically tailored for use by a mobile device," a Vodafone spokesman said, emphasizing that the .mobile name was only hypothetical. "The whole site would have been organized for speed of download, ease of use and simplicity."
"You could actually put in place policies that are specific to these services that the domain is supposed to go after," said Michael Wehrs, director of mobile devices standards and technology at Microsoft.
Having policies to regulate this new domain name sounds like a bad idea. Sure, policies and standards can help mobile devices more easily access mobile sites. But enforcing standards can stifle creativity.
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Re: New Domain Name Proposed (Score: 0) by Anonymous on Friday, March 12 @ 10:03:42 EST | The whole site would have been organized for speed of download, ease of use and simplicity
Of course, because everybody knows that normal websites don't need to be concerned about that kind of stuff. All web surfers using anything other than mobile phones much prefer slow downloads, and confusing and complicated sites.
A much better (and less likely) proposal would be for websites to simplify and clarify their layout for all users, then companies could much more easily maintain just one site, instead of multiple sites.
Oh, but I forgot. Adhering to standards "stifles creativity." Right, for definitions of "creativity" involving breaking standards to make websites do things that break users' expectations and make them harder to navigate. |
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