iphone & unobstrusive html

as a mac user i see the anticipated iphone today. it’s a fantastic machine though somewhat expensive. it has an embedded safari browser, so i can see every normal site for pc through it. but it’s no surprise, in japan.  full browser support phone was sold since 2005 in this country.

my main job was related to the japan mobile market. so i aware the importance of unobstrusive web technique very early. where the mobile  technology  goes  advance, also old-fashioned html technique needed more. like bitmap graphic technique is needed in mobile game in this 3D Game age.

so, iphone will be prevailed in america and world-wide sooner or later. many competitive phones embedded brower will be available everywhere. and you know there’re more and more phones than pcs in the world. and that time, browser market share will be changed drastically. especially big fat ie will not be the major browser any more. i can’t even assure the position of firefox. safari or opera or customed browser(i.e. vodafone browser, docomo browser, qualcomm browser) who targeted mobile market from early days will be the champion of next browser war.

i thinks  it takes not so long time. as a web developer, we have to prepare sites for the limited resources. well-tuned tags & unobstrusive javascript and css support for small window and slow traffics. cookie may be unavailable, also. we have to focus on every html component, check every componenet is unobstrusive, not only javascript.