Russell Beattie
is pointing out in a recent editorial how surfing the Net with a mobile browser can be an excruciatingly horrendous experience. We all know that on a mobile device typing is more difficult, airtime has cost, the screen is smaller, and everything is just slower; yet, most website developers seem to happily ignore their mobile visitors and to instead focus on cumbersome, slow-to-load and flashy web design. In Russell's words:
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What's wrong with them? Well, first is the content: Most of it is truncated down to just snippets of information. Why? I click on my mobile web browser, I wait 30 real-world seconds for it to connect and grab information. Finally it's there and what do I see? One paragraph of a story which tells me only the bare-minimum of information, or worse, a page of links for me to choose from so I can wait *another* 30 real-world seconds to get to some info. Great. I wouldn't have pulled out my phone to read a mobile website unless I had 20 or 30 minutes on my hands (I'm getting an oil change or I'm on the bus, etc.). I'm bored. I'm trapped. Entertain me, don't frustrate me!
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Entertaining read, and he is so right! Time for a mobile revolution, don't you think?