MobiWeb2.0 Project: "Mobile Web 2.0"

Latest News

W3C Invites Community to Explore Future of Social Networking in Workshop — 14 October 2008
W3C invites people to participate in the upcoming Mobile Web Initiative Workshop on the Future of Social Networking, to be hosted by Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and ReadyPeople in Barcelona (Spain) on 15-16 January 2009. The goal of this workshop is to bring together industry actors to foster discussion andanalyse risks and opportunities of social networking industry, and to define plans for the future of the industry, including opportunities of creation of a W3C group to continue the discussion. Position papers are due November 20. This workshop also offers a sponsorship opportunity for interested parties.
W3C Organizes Workshop on Security for Access to Device APIs from the Web — 9 October 2008
W3C invites people to participate in the upcoming Mobile Web Initiative Workshop on Security for Access to Device APIs from the Web, to be hosted by Vodafone in London (UK) on 10-11 December 2008. The goal of this workshop is to bring together people from a wide variety of backgrounds (API designers, security experts, usability experts, mobile industry actors, mobile developpers, etc.) to discuss the security challenges involved in allowing Web applications and widgets to access the APIs that allow to control these features (e.g., cameras, gps, address books, etc.). Position papers are due 30 October.
Online training course on Mobile Web Best Practices — 6 October 2008
The W3C Mobile Web Initiative is opening up a new session of its on-line training course on the Mobile Web Best Practices, starting October 13, for a duration of 5 weeks. The course is free, but limited to 100 participants. Learn more about the course and register on-line.
October 2008 events:
- Philipp Hoschka presents at the Internet of Things/ Internet of the Future conference on 6 October 2008, in Nice, France. This event is organized under the French presidency of the European Union.
Upcoming MobiWeb2.0 Events in September 08:
- François Daoust participates at the Mobile Internet User eXperience (MIUX'08) workshop, on 2 Sept. 08, in Amsterdam.
- François Daoust speaks at the Telecom, Media & Content Services session of the Smart Mobility 2008 event, on 17 September 2008, in Sophia Antipolis, France.
- Dominique Hazaël-Massieux speaks at the Mobile Web Europe event on 23 Sept. 08, in London, UK.
Last Call Working Draft of Content Transformation Guidelines 1.0 — 5 August 2008
The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of the Content Transformation Guidelines specification for public review. The document provides means for content providers and content transformation proxies to work together and deliver the best possible experience of the Web on a user's device.
The community is invited to review and comment the document before 16 September 2008. Comments should be sent to public-bpwg-comments@w3.org (publicly archived).
New release of Web Compatibility Test for Mobile Browsers — 30 July 2008
The Mobile Web Test Suites Working Group has released a new stable version of its Web Compatibility Testfor Mobile Browsers, featuring more technologies and several improvements over the previous version. Read more about the design of the test.
Mobile Web Best Practices is a W3C Recommendation! — 29 July 2008
W3C today announced new standards that will make it easier for people to browse the Web on mobile devices. Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 condenses the experience of many mobile Web stakeholders into practical advice on creating mobile-friendly content. These guidelines will help to improve the experience of people browsing the Web on awide array of mobile handsets. W3C published a second Web standard today: XHTML Basic 1.1 Recommendation, the preferred format specification of the Best Practices. With this, there is now a full convergence in mobile markup languages, including those developed by the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA). The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group also published today the first draft of a next generation of guidelines, Mobile Web Application Best Practices, aimed at mobile Web applications and widgets. Read also the press release and testimonials.

Project Summary and Objectives

MobiWeb2.0 addresses the usability and interoperability issues that are holding back mobile Web access today. It will focus on mobile Web 2.0 applications based on technologies such as Ajax that can significantly increase the usability of mobile Web applications. MobiWeb2.0 builds on 3GWeb, an FP6 project which focused on improving traditional browsing on mobile devices.

The project is led by the World Wide Web Consortium, an organization of currently more than 440 members from research and industry headed by the Web’s inventor, Tim Berners-Lee. MobiWeb2.0 is integrated with W3C’s Mobile Web Initiative (MWI) which has many European supporters, including Ericsson, France Telecom, Nokia, TIM Italia, Vodafone and Opera.

To achieve the overall goal of improving the user experience of mobile Web access and thus tapping the huge potential for increasing mobile Web access, MobiWeb2.0 has the following 5 objectives:

Increase awareness of W3C’s Mobile Web Initiative in Europe
European actors in the mobile value chain (content providers, content production tool providers, operators, browser vendors, etc.) need to be informed about the goals and results of W3C’s Mobile Web Initiative.
Increase number of developers able to develop mobile Web 2.0 content
European Web developers need to be capable of creating Web content that works well on mobile devices.
Provide more extensive test suites for Web standards
Today’s European mobile Web systems contain a range of incompatibilities, often caused by lack of standards conformance. More extensive test suites that cover a higher percentage of Web standards will help increase the level of standards conformance.
Improve the W3C mobileOK validator tool
The W3C mobileOK validator tool developed in 3GWeb needs to be extended to cover newer versions of W3C mobileOK.
Increase number of available tools for creating mobileOK content
Content authors need to have access to content production tools that create mobile friendly content. This is particularly true for user generated content. The number of available tools needs to be increased. The approach taken by MobiWeb2.0 is to contribute code to open source content creation tools where needed.

Partner

The European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) aims to foster collaborative work within the European research community and to increase co-operation with European industry. Leading research institutes from eighteen European countries are members of ERCIM.

The MobiWeb2.0 project is financed by the European Union's 7th Research Framework Program (FP7) (INFSO-ICT-212430) under the challenge "The Network of the Future"

The project started on 1 January 2008, and has a duration of 24 months.

Marie-Claire Forgue (mcf at w3.org)

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