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w3c mobile web best practices

The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group just released a new version of the Mobile Best Practices document; while still a Working Draft, this new version is special since it’s a Last Call Working Draft, meaning that the document represents the consensus of this working group.

From now on until February 17, any participant in the mobile value chain can send his comments to public-bpwg-comments@w3.org to be taken into account as Last Call comments.

People tend to confuse web 2.0 with mobile web 2.0 but at W3C they name the work in progress Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0.

The document includes information on the One Web issue:

One Web means making, as far as is reasonable, the same information and services available to users irrespective of the device they are using. However it does not mean that exactly the same information is available in exactly the same way across all devices. Some services and information are more suitable for and targeted at particular user contexts.

and MobileOK:

The Best Practice Statements are intended to be capable of having conformance statements constructed around them, in support of the mobileOK trustmark and for other purposes. Work on the mobileOK trustmark will develop specific recommended requirements for a trustmark, which will be based on some profile, or subset, of the Statements in this document.

Web 2.0 Workgroup

The best practice statements have been assembled by the BPWG from a number of sources including Little Spring Design but I have the impression a lot of experts are missing these kind of discussions on such important topics. For example I would be interested to see more discussion between the Web 2.0 Workgroup and the The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group with convergence taking place at rapid pace.

Posted on January 19th, 2006 in Thoughts
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Written by Rudy De Waele

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  1. Barbara Ballard says:
    January 19th, 2006

    Interestingly enough, many of my comments have largely ignored. The worst of it is a fundamental disagreement: I believe that for most sites, user experience is greatly enhanced if the mobile version is separately designed and coded.

    Some comments on the draft document

    Advantages mobile devices have over desktop devices

    An example of how design is different

  2. Kelly says:
    January 19th, 2006

    barbara - much discusssion about when to create a separate site - versus making sure a current site is ‘mobile-enabled’ using standards-based coding. This is a discussion through the w2forum when .mob was originally discussed. I hope we can generate more direction for the industry in subsequent postings!

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