Jeremy Liew has written a really interesting post on the Lightspeed Venture Partners blog (they’re a VC firm), pointing out that full web browsing on phones is on the rise, thanks partly to the iPhone.
But at the same time, the size of these full web pages is increasing – the average web page has tripled in size since 2003 apparently, thanks to more use of Web 2.0 techs like Ajax and JavaScript. Jeremy wants to know what people think will happen as these two trends collide. Frustration, basically. Even if you’re on a flat-rate data tariff and a decent 3G or HSDPA connection, trying to access pages that are sluggish to load is plain frustrating, no matter how swizzy your touchscreen-based browser is. Using the iPhone can feel like going back to the days of dial-up on some sites. The obvious answer is to make sure there are mobile-friendly versions of each website, serving up the same content without the unnecessary (for phones) gobbledegook. But then many techies think this would be an equally bad idea, creating two separate internets. Decisions, decisions. Perhaps everybody could go back to plain text and images, and make their websites look like GeoCities homepages again ;o)
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