The W3C champions the cause of Web Pages functioning consistently in all User-Agents (Graphical Browsers, Textual Browsers, Screen Readers, Search Engines, PDAs , et al) and describes this as Interoperability (for example, accompanying successful Markup Validation). WWW terminology can get somewhat murky at times -- I personally think Interoperability is a component of Usability -- but life is far too short for me to get exercised about terminology so I adapt to whatever system my various correspondents employ. Anyway, here are some notes and thoughts on the subject for discussion: Web Page Interoperability

James

With these new ages where people are accessing web site from cell phones and pda's We have to learn to make our pages work for all. Now we're having to read up on what kind of style sheets to use and how to lay it out incase someone wants to print out some info off of our sites. This is just a fact that we havce to deal with as developers and designers. The internet is getting on smaller and smaller objects now. Take a look at the psp, ps3 and even the Wii, All of them have internet accessability and we have to make sure that thos people who dont wanna buy a laptop and prefer to use the internet on a psp cause its cheaper and pretty much does the same exact thing as a laptop we have to besure that our info get consistanly relayed to them with the same look, the same feel, and the same attitude as our computer originals do.