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Anyone reading this right now is of course browsing the web, looking for some bits of information or just trying to find a way to connect with the world. As the electronics industry develops, and computer chips get smaller and smaller their is always the question in the development of a new gadget. Of course we can make this device tiny, but how big does the screen size need to be?
As we all sit here looking at the same text on this web page, we are all probably seeing it a little differently. Some of us may be sitting at home in a home office in front of a desktop monitor. it might be seventeen inches it might even be twenty-six inches or bigger. Some of us are looking at the thirteen inch screen of a laptop, or the ten and a half inch screen of a netbook such as HP netbooks. Still others are on an Iphone or a Droid, and the screen size continues to shrink. How does a company plan for this. Every webpage can not be made the same for all these devices. When one looks at an average webpage on a ten and a half inch screen you often miss some of the content. On an Iphone or a Droid, any kind of hand held device, special webpages are made, but often it seems one is left to squint to see the content of a page or risk missing what they are looking for in the first place.
Is there a solution. Of course there is always a solution and one of them is to make multiple webpages that can distinguish what device they are being observed on. This is not always an option. If we leave this issue up to the user we must remember that some of our content will be missed and it is up to us to make sure our message is heard correctly.
