Did I miss something..Why would Web Designers be worried about their Web pages on wireless devices?

I%26#039;ve viewed pages on my cheap Sprint phone and the pages look fine. I read something about the whole iphone craze...and this one web designer seems to think that wireless devices might change the web designing as we know it....did I miss something?

Did I miss something..Why would Web Designers be worried about their Web pages on wireless devices?

There could be a temporary change in method to accomadate those with slow hardware and connections, but most major sites have the ability to know what browser you are using and in effect tell them if it is mobile or not. If it is mobile, you could be directed to a site with smaller files and a leaner build. This will only be temporary considering how fast hardware is advancing. The web has always been about accomadating for old hardware and slow connection speed for audience purposes. Nothing new. The .mobi group has set standards for slow mobile and it is lame. I refuse to turn the clock back.

Did I miss something..Why would Web Designers be worried about their Web pages on wireless devices?

Guess I missed something too.

Unless w3c finds solutions in WML for the common web site design problems. I don%26#039;t see how this can change anything..

Other Replys:Congrats that all of your websites come out clean on most phones without any tweaking!

A lot of times especially with more complicated layouts of websites they look completely different or ugly on cell phones. For example, what if your cell phone browser is set to not load images. This might mess up the alignment and position of a lot of text on the screen. Depending on the phone%26#039;s browser, web sites can come out completely different (info in different order or even missing).

This depends mainly on if the web site designer has planned to have a specific version for lower level browsers or if they have two versions of each page which can be dynamically generated which is cell phone compatible. For example, news websites have an option to view printable version of this article, this dynamically generates a page with just text formatted simply and with the most important information about the site for resource purposes.

Hope this Helps!

Other Replys:When it comes to devices all they should be worried about is their markup. If we bow down to products instead of standards then we haven%26#039;t learned anything.

Other Replys:If you design semantically, and use relative sizes (em of %) then there is nothing to worry about. However, many web designers don%26#039;t in which case mobile phones, iphones, pda etc will not render the pages well.