Not helping at all, as the desktop will always avoid tradeoffs that one need to do on a portable device.

Right now we are seeing more and more pages thats to large for 800x400 or similar. Hell, i have seen pages that expect a display that has widescreen format, no if's or buts about it.

And unless everyone on this planet suddenly goes "green", a desktop cpu will always have more raw power to go on then a portable one. And as such can throw around interactivity gloss that will make anything else hang on the workload.

The problem IMO, is that the web have become to much about presentation and to little about raw data. Pages with mouse over drop down menus, pages made of pure flash with fancy transitions, background music and whats not. Videos of all shapes and sizes? And to present what? Most likely some sweat shop product that could just as well have been summed up in a couple of still images from different, useful angles (the number of times a image is more obscuring then revealing is just nuts) and a page of text defining the specs.

Hell, current comdex coverage is more video then text, while what little specs one see is blurry as the camera happens to pan over some sheet of paper on a nearby table.