This past weekend a friend of mine brought over his Nintendo Wii, not only was I impressed with its gameplay and usablility, but its internet browser was awesome as well. It is made by Opera and it renders pages pretty well. Then I started to think, "This is just one more browser for me to test my pages on." It won't stop there either, even to the outermost perimeter of our lives will be filled with screens.

The internet has grown with our lifestyles intertwined. Electronics on the market are judged by the ability these products have to tap into data and access the internet. In order for these devices to access the same resources, manufacturers have to develop components that parallel that of computers.

We can see it with the PDAs and the smartphones, the kiosks at the mall, the guy who created his house into a interactive Christmas show, and now gaming consoles as well. While the ways in which the internet is used are branching off into different veins, screen resolutions are becoming higher and monitor sizes are getting bigger. This provides somewhat of a conflict for us producers, developers, and designers; how do we make something work and express information in the same manner across all formats?

The content will have to change presentation on every varying screen, and coded to change the size of its elements depending on the device. Eventually we will have to make this a standard because as the internet moves from the computer into our pockets and cars, the predictable monitor size will be no more.

For the time being, I think we should start by "testing" all pages on the Wii.