Design hampers mobile Internet
A mass market exists for the mobile Internet, but it will remain untapped until designers make simpler Web pages that can be viewed properly on handsets, the inventor of the World Wide Web said.
"(The mobile Internet) will be a huge enabler for the industry... and for big profits," Tim Berners-Lee told a seminar on Thursday on the future of the Web.
"Web designers have learned to design for the visually impaired and for other people. They will learn in a few years how to make Web sites available for people with mobile devices too," he said.
Berners-Lee invented the Web in 1989 while working at European particle-physics lab CERN in Geneva, trying to make it easier for fellow scientists to share information and collaborate over the Internet.
While his invention has revolutionized the way people across the globe work and communicate, repeated attempts by mobile device makers and operators to lure users with mobile Internet access have failed.
