Verizon offers Optimized View for Mobile Web - FierceMobileContent

I would like to warn you that it's too late in the week for unbridled optimism.While they have been at it a while a recent news release from Verizon touts this ability in the usual breathless hyperbolic manner.

customers who visit Web sites on their mobile phones using Verizon Wireless' Mobile Web service will now be able to get to the same sites they visit using personal computers and enjoy a similar experience on their mobile phones.

One hopes they are using the word similar in the most weaselly legalese fashion. My car's acceleration is similar to my Ducati  just not in a positive way.

The mobile web is not a desktop replacement and it's farcical to suggest otherwise It's not the web, or the device, that's mobile it's the users. It's not enough to announce a major improvement without overselling it. You've won a million dollars! AND it will be delivered by a unicorn, though not the IPU*

Money for many is getting tight and the buffer zone for a service working as claimed versus being considered in a negative light is dwindling. Am I suggesting better customer service is possible from a carrier? Anything's possible but I  need to get back to the main point instead of making things up.

Many of these "working" pages now have issues that are ,for site owner and visitor alike , detrimental. Most  are resolvable with effort on the part of the developer but one has to know the plans of all carriers and how they implement such schemes.

The big problem is when we get to HTTPS.  Transcoders have to interrupt the ssl layer to read ,and reformat, the page which leaves the door open for some interesting  times?  More on this issue, and the problems of transcoders can be found here  and here


 






IPU peace be unto her hooves.