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W3C Releases Mobile Web Best Practices |
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Written by Adam Gosling
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Wednesday, 28 June 2006 |
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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has released
a Best Practices guide for website designers and creators making websites for
mobile devices.
The new document, published Mobile Web Best Practices a Candidate
Recommendation condenses the experience of many mobile Web stakeholders into practical
advice on creating content that will work well on mobile devices.
The document's release coincides with a new guidelines checker to test
your pages, although this is released only as an alpha version. The W3C has
also established a wiki to
collect observations and suggestions on techniques and implementation experience.
The document was created by a working group including
more than 30 organisations and is part of the W3C Mobile Web Initiative.
The document sets
out a series of recommendations which are intended as the basis for assessing
conformance to the mobileOK trustmark, which is described in the Mobile Web Best
Practices Working Group Charter, although the documents describing mobileOK
and techniques for implementing the Best Practice recommendations are still being
worked on.
The good thing about the document
however is that it is intended for readers who understand traditional web
creation, rather than mobile specific, so a general familiarity with Web
servers and HTTP should get you through it.
The Best Practice recommendations refer to delivered
content. While they are clearly relevant to the processes of content creation
and rendering on devices, they are not intended to be Best Practices for those
activities.
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