The meeting was organized around a video of a talk given by designer Jeremy Keith of Clearleft. Jeremy emphasized that the idea of "a website" is much more than how a site looks in a browser. It is broader than just that visualization. Further, the idea of controlling exactly how a site appears in a browser is a fiction. We do not know what user agent the reader is actually using and what technology the user has available, such as javascript or broadband. (We noted that AOL still has 3 million subscribers to its dial-up service.)
On the other hand, HTML is built to be responsive. So mobile, as well as any other form of serving information first, starts with good HTML.
A couple of references from the video:
- http://dowebsitesneedtolookexactlythesameineverybrowser.com/ (Check this site in different browsers and note the slight differences, none of which matters to the actual content delivered.)
- A Dao of Web Design
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