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Unbreak My Heart: Someone Fix the Mobile Web!

Event Interactive 2011
Format Dual
Organizer Matias Penela AgencyNet
Description The complexity of thousands of unique hardware and OS combinations means that developers have to take hardware limitations like screen size into consideration, as well as software limitations such as obscure or dated browsers. This means that right now somewhere, someone, is looking at a newly published, "mobile-optimized" site for a forward-thinking company and can't figure out why the webpage looks like a high school student project.
Questions
Answered
  1. How can we build for hundreds of platforms and countless operating systems across thousands of phones?
  2. What are some best practices for designing and developing for mobile?
  3. What can we do while waiting for standards to emerge?
  4. Why are mobile-optimized sites so darn ugly?
  5. Is this the new browser war?
Level Intermediate
Category Web Standards
Tags browsers, mobile, standard