The third way

Currently I see device independent web engineering as follows:

1. The typical device dependent way. WRONG.
2. The W3C device independence WG way. WRONG.
3. Style and content are seperated with an emphasis on the UA to do its job. RIGHT.

The UA on a mobile would do this job really well if users can easily:
* Disable style sheets
* Disable images
* Scroll better (WTF should a server pagenate?)
* Allow larger sized documents than they do now

Read my thesis... there is a long list coming :)

The UA would also need to somehow recognize columns layouts and not budge up text. Text must flow full width on a typically small display of a mobile. Columns do not work. Possibily some screen scraping needs to be done with legacy HTML.

As for a longer term solution for images, lets get bitmaps scaling with relative dimensions I say, like your style sheet should be already! Hint: this is how NOT to create a style sheet.