Bob Browning's blog

You may not have noticed, but the stores are starting to get shipments of webbooks.  These are notebook computers that are small, light, and above all cheap.  e.g. £170 each.  They run Unix or Windows XP but have built in wi-fi  and a web browser.  So you can whip one out in Starbucks and surf the net, get your emails and so on with a real computer with a real keyboard and screen – albeit a small one. You can’t run Vista on most of these, but Windows 7 will apparently run on one of these devices. 

What with cloud computing coming into its own, people are going to be using this sort of device to write documents, keep their diary and so on.  Clearly a GOOD IDEA.

They are such a good idea, that I can see them becoming pretty unbiquitous.  So ???

So – remember when you had to size your web pages for 600×480 screens.  Well these little blighters are not much better. Maybe 800×480.  These won’t count as mobile devices so a separate style sheet will not do the job.   Most web pages are sized for much higher resolutions that this. 

We have a  problem Houston.