Wireless Will Cause Website Troubles Warns Consultant 11/08/99.
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Newsbytes, Nov 8, 1999 pNA
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Creed, Adam
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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, 1999 NOV 8 (NB). A predicted jump in the number of people using wireless devices like mobile telephones, personal digital assistants (PDAs) and wireless modems to access the Internet will give Web designers a number of headaches, according to Australian e-business consultant Tom Worthington.
A new breed of mobile devices will use wireless application protocol (WAP) and other systems to display Web content. Size of device displays and the computing power of mobile Internet devices will affect which Websites can be viewed properly, according to Worthington.
"A very large shock is in store for designers of Web pages: next year's hot new browser will have less of everything," he said. "The latest, hot new computers will have less processing capacity, less memory, smaller, lower resolution screens and poorer input devices."
The result will be corporate, educational and government Websites all becoming incompatible with a growing number of Internet access devices.
"Websites which have been designed to deal with usability issues in mind will be able to be adapted for WAP and similar devices," said Worthington. "Websites which have been designed by graphic artists and publishing people, without the assistance of IT professionals will be unusable."
The problem may not just be limited to wireless Internet devices, he suggests.
"There are also larger devices, such as sub-notebook PCs, Web telephones and Web TV which have common features with WAP devices."
Worthington is due to present these findings to the Government Online conference to be held in Canberra this week.
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