Right now the mobile web browser world is a dogs breakfast. Many sites render incorrectly on mobile devices and it’s really a hit or miss affair. The “World Wide Web Consortium” W3C, the guys largely responsible for the fact that the Internet doesn’t belong to Microsoft have decided to create a standards (Mobile Web Initiative or MWI) framework to facilitate the creation of sites that work as well on mobile devices like PDA’s and smart phones as they do on desktop browsers. Considering the growth rate of mobile devices, and the expansion of 3G type hi-speed services, this can only be a good thing. Best of all is that Opera is the king of browsers on such platforms so this is not likely to become another Microsoft dominated platform any time soon. (don’t count them out though as they have shown remarkable persistence in previous similar situations.) You can read the MWI press release at the W3C site.
