Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Tim Berners-Lee (04 Oct 2004) There was a proposal to make a special top-level domain called “.mobi.” All the websites that would work with mobile phones would be put in that area; it would be the place for Web content for mobile devices. But there should be just one URL, or Web address, for something. To segregate content into a .mobi corral is the wrong way to do it. We’ve got lots of standards at W3C for allowing a website to perform optimally whether you’re looking at it from a cell phone or from a huge screen. But obviously, if you put a “.mobi” at the end of a domain name, then you’re saying, “That’s a special place for stuff you can see on your cell phone.” Article URL: http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/04/10/frauenfelder1004.asp Read 181 more articles from Technology Review Magazine sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: TR 100: Computing     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy