You're certainly right about ebay, breck, and same goes for amazon... as well as many news sites.

Personally I prefer a drill-down approach over those "let's throw everything we can at the user on one page" tactics. It's cleaner, more functional, and faster. The tablets have exposed the ugliness of many sites-- being required to wait for 200+ objects of any kind to load before the web page fully renders is just flat insane.

I'd wager that 90% of what's shoved on us via main web pages is immaterial to what we're looking for. It's definitely more distracting than useful.

I really regret not having the time to put into jablet.net like I'd wanted, but I'm not giving up completely. It may be Summer before I get back to it (when I don't have to spend every single night coaxing 2 boys through mounds of homework) but I intend to. Jabber was just one aspect of the site; I mean for it to be a general tablet resource as well. The tablet-friendly standards thing just popped into my head today thanks to this thread and I really want to get to work on it!