According to reports Microsoft is getting to release Internet Explorer 6 for Windows Mobile sometime this year.
The biggest benefit of the IE6 for Mobile is the full IE 6 rendering engine, meaning that any page that renders properly in IE 6 on the PC should do look just fine on Windows Mobile.
Explorer 6 mobile also promises flash support.
Tim McDonough, a senior director in Microsoft’s Windows Mobile unit, said “The market today is really at ‘Can I see a page?’ Very quickly we’re getting to ‘Can I do something?'” he said. “That’s where we will really shine.”
An interesting option on IE 6 will be the ability to quickly shift from a site’s mobile page to its standard desktop version.
IE 6 toggles between mobile and standard Web pages by sending a different user agent, depending on which page type a user wants to see.
If IE 6 mobile allows you to not only view a .com, site on your mobile phone but “use it” then where does .mobi fit in? What is its purpose and what features will it add to the mobile world.
First it was ‘everyone will have an iPhone’, …so why mobi!?! Now, “Microsoft is going to be on everyphone’, ..so why .mobi!?! Next it’ll be ‘xxxxx will be everywhere’, so … why .mobi!?!
In fact, ‘why’ .info, .biz, and every other unneeded and confusing extension now or to be out there??!!?
So many questions, so little time!
The way I see it, ICANN likes to keep domainers in a state of ‘speculator confusion’, so they keep rolling out the ‘next great extensions’ just for giggles and dollars. .Mobi is just one of the many extensions we have and will have to choose from and collect I guess.
Using .mobi domain names is a personal choice.
.mobi is NOT dead
Go .mobi
Mike,
Good points there. We’ve been recently coding our sites so they can flow easily on mobile devices like blackberry and iphone and then writing @screen and @mobile versions of our css styles.
You could use these techniques for any domain extension …
-Richard
You are right guys. Not every developer or business has to use a .mobi. It is their CHOICE to use a .mobi just like it’s a developer’s or business’s CHOICE to build on a .net, .info or even .me if they want.
Just because people default to .com doesn’t mean that all the other extensions are useless.
So, is the desktop a .biz killer? Certainly not. So then, why is the iphone or MS the .mobi killer?
It’s an alternative for a mobile experience not the only solution for a mobile experience.