W3C Issues Mobile Web Best Practices as Candidate Recommendation; Industry Leaders Encourage Developers to test Guidelines for ''One Web'' of Content.http://www.w3.org/ -- Today, W3C reached an important milestone toward its mission of making it as easy to use the Web on a mobile device as on a desktop computer. W3C has published Mobile Web Best Practices a Candidate Recommendation, an indication of broad consensus on the technical content of the document. W3C now invites implementation experience from the community. Industry leaders are declaring their support for the guidelines, which explain how to develop Web sites that work on mobile devices. "There are many devices, but one Web," said Daniel Appelquist, chair of the Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group. "Practical guidelines on how to create content once that can be delivered to the plethora of devices saves developers and organizations time and money, and has the added benefit of not breaking the Web. " W3C Distills Principles and Techniques for Efficient Delivery of Web Content "Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0" condenses the experience of many mobile Web stakeholders into practical advice on creating content that will work well on mobile devices. Authors and other content producers can find instructions on how to create content that makes browsing convenient on mobile devices and avoids known pitfalls, such as pop-ups and page-scrolling. Guidelines Checker and Techniques Wiki Available to Mobile Web Developers W3C invites 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. In order to build a strong community of mobile Web developers, W3C has also launched a wiki to collect observations and suggestions on techniques and implementation experience of Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0. Mobile Web Best Practices Enjoys Broad Industry and Consumer Support "Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0" was developed by a Working Group that included representatives from 30 organizations: Afilias Limited, America Online, Inc. (AOL), ANEC ANEC European Association for the Co-ordination of Consumer Representation in Standardisation ANEC American Nuclear Energy Council ANEC Advanced Network Engineering Consultants Limited (UK) European Association for the Co-ordination of Consumer Representation in Standardisation, Argo Interactive Ltd, AT&T, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI ETRI Electronics & Telecommunications Research Institute (Korea) ETRI Enhanced Threat Reduction Initiative ETRI Electronics Telecommunication Research Inc. ), elmundo.es, Ericsson, France Telecom, Fundacion CTIC (Centro Tecnologico para el Desarrollo en Asturias de las Tecnologias de la Informacion y la Comunicacion), Fundacion ONCE, Go Daddy.com, Google, Inc., Indus Net Technologies, International Webmasters Association International Webmasters Association (IWA), a non-profit professional association for web professionals, provides training courses and certification. IWA reportedly has 100 official chapters representing over 22,000 individual members in 106 countries. / HTML Writers Guild (IWA-HWG IWA-HWG International Webmasters Association / HTML Writers Guild ), Internet Content Rating Association ICRA, the Internet Content Rating Association, is an international non-profit organization with offices in the United States and the United Kingdom. Its mission is to help users find the content they want, to trust what they find and to filter out what they don't want for , Microsoft Corporation, dotMobi (mTLD Top Level Domain, Ltd.), Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Openwave Systems Inc., Opera Software, Segala, Sevenval AG, T-Online International AG, The Boeing Company, TIM Italia SpA, University of Helsinki The University of Helsinki is not to be confused with the Helsinki University of Technology. The University of Helsinki (Finnish: Helsingin yliopisto, Swedish: Helsingfors universitet , Vodafone and Volantis Systems Ltd. This work is part of the W3C Mobile Web Initiative, which is supported by nineteen MWI Sponsors, including key players in the mobile production chain: Afilias, Argogroup, Bango.net, dotMobi, Drutt Corporation, Ericsson, France Telecom, HP, Jataayu Software, MobileAware, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Opera Software, TIM Italia, RuleSpace, Segala, Sevenval, Vodafone, and Volantis. About the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards. W3C primarily pursues its mission through the creation of Web standards and guidelines designed to ensure long-term growth for the Web. Over 400 organizations are Members of the Consortium. W3C is jointly run by the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory  It has been suggested that and be merged into this article or section. (MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology CSAIL CSAIL Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT)CSAIL Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab ) in the USA, the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM ERCIM - European Research Consortium on Informatics and Mathematics. An association of European research organisations promoting cooperative research on key issues in Information Technology. ) headquartered in France and Keio University in Japan, and has additional Offices worldwide. For more information see http://www.w3.org/ |
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