Tired of waiting for your favorite bowling enthusiast website to finally release its long-awaited mobile optimized version? Yeah, we hear that -- but if a new IBM research project ever sees the light of day, maybe we can just fix that glitch ourselves. "Highlight" is a Firefox-based plug-in that allows end users to script common tasks on sites and boil them down to super simple mini-sites that are more easily digested on mobile browsers, at which point the new sites are copied up to a proxy server that would theoretically be hosted by IBM or another company. There could be some resistance from sites that aren't so keen on having their content re-hosted somewhere outside of their control, but it sounds like IBM is ready to push forward with the project if it generates enough interest. [Warning: PDF link]
[Via
textually.org and
PC World]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jeffrey Nichols @ Jul 17th 2008 1:25AM
Here's a video of creating a simple flight tracking application using Highlight:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H1wIIbXtec
Cheers,
-jn
maxxwizard @ Jul 17th 2008 12:28PM
that seems really useful. i hope they continue the project.
TK @ Jul 17th 2008 5:21PM
Thanks for this! It will be an asset to my company
Squid7085 @ Jul 17th 2008 5:49PM
I have an iPhone so its much less of an issue now than it was with my previous phone. But I can tell you this is something I would love to see. The whole scrolling right to left to read a paragraph on a non mobile optimized site is kinda getting old.