Don’t call me DOM

If I had a magic wand…:

My portable music player is Web connected (probably through a bluetooth connection to my phone, or because it is my phone - the jury is still out on whether devices should include as many features as possible, or do just one thing very well).

This allows me to learn more about the artists biographies and musicographies while I listen to them; I had never been able to remember who was singing what, but now that my music player displays this information on demand as soon as I want, I certainly look much more knowledgeable than I ever did!

The Mobile Web Initiative is working hard at fixing interoperability issues, setting foundations for better content adaptation mechanisms, documenting how to work around or avoid the limitations and constraints of the current user experience on mobile devices, which I think are critical to the development of the Mobile Web.

But all these work items are targetting incremental enhancements to the situation, in a step by step approach in which it is sometimes difficult to envision the promises the Mobile Web holds. It’s easy to focus only on the contraints, and forget about the great advantages and potential that mobile devices proposes.