Best Practice Report

Improve Mobile Site Usability By Addressing Device And Browser Variability

Vidya L. Drego
 and  two contributors
Sep 12, 2007

Summary

Experience on the mobile Web is poor. That's no surprise given the confusing landscape of technologies, devices, and browsers that mobile site designers need to support. Every year hundreds of devices flood the market with different browsers, display capabilities, screen sizes, and keypads — making designing a consistently good experience both an expensive and time-consuming process. To approach the mobile Web in a systematic fashion, Forrester recommends that companies select one of the following strategies: 1) support the lowest common denominator; 2) target specific devices; or 3) adapt to the capabilities of the devices.

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