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W3C mobile web best practices checker

If you’re designing or developing for mobile phones, you probably have heard about the W3C Mobile Web Initiative :

“The Mobile Web Initiative’s goal is to make browsing the Web from mobile devices a reality”, explains Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor of the Web. “W3C and mobile industry leaders are working together to improve Web content production and access for mobile users and the greater Web.”

Recently they published a major update of the basic guidelines as Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 and are now inviting the designers of Web sites and content management systems to read the guidelines, make implementations, and test their results with the alpha version of a guidelines checker.

I recommend all designers and developers to start working with it, it’s not ideal yet but if everyone starts using it and send consequently his/her feedback back to W3C Mobile Web Initiative working group, we collectively benefit to make the mobile web a reality. Try it! I’m sure you’ll learn about some interesting progress going on in mobile web development, also you can see how others are developing and respecting W3C guidelines. Surprises guaranteed :-)

Note: the checker tool is still an alpha release and has not been assessed by the Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group yet.

Posted on July 12th, 2006 in Links
Tagged as best practices , guidelines checker , mobile web , mobile web design , Tim Berners Lee , w3c
Written by Rudy De Waele