S60 Open to new features

One approach to making the web usable on tiny devices is to use a “smart” server that modifies the original content in some way. Here’s an example: Intelligent Mobile Platform from InfoGin. It looks like they’re reformatting content to eliminate horizontal scrolling, which is the most common approach.

It has certain advantages for some tasks, but I can’t help noticing it changes the experience of mobile browsing to “scrolling a list”. This works fine if your view of the Web is, I dunno, an online order-taking system. That sounds dismissive, but systems like that are great; I’m in favor of anything that saves me from physically shopping. But that’s hardly all there is to the Web. I’d like to have a narrow-but-tall page layout sometimes, but I’m not convinced it’s a good solution in all cases.

To be fair, I haven’t had a chance to use IMP extensively; all I’ve seen is demos. Maybe they have more flexible solutions in the package that do exactly what I want, which means adaptation to user context as well as screen size.

It says here that InfoGin has partnered with InfoSpace .