An interesting bi-product of my own development work has been the realization that content must be stored in a database and served to specific devices and not just served from simple pages. Some sort of server scripting or programming is necessary to negotiate the current field of browsers and devices trying to access a website, for many reasons.

If browsers strictly followed some sort of web standard, it might be possible to create a page driven website which could adapt to different devices via media negotiation, view-port specification, etc. Yet this is improbable given the current trend for browsers (especially IE) to still do their own thing. So a ‘one web’ dynamic website is a worthwhile goal, but does require significant effort to create a workable solution.

The good news is, the latest smartphones and iPhone are now able to process css, javascript and xhtml (when being xhtml MP compliant) reasonably well. So there actually may be future for the ‘one web’ website.