MobiWeb2.0 Project: "Mobile Web 2.0"

Past News

• Proposed Recommendation of mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0 — 3 November 2008
  The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has released the Proposed Recommendation of the W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0 document. The document defines tests that may be automatically checked by Web authors to assert that they took some of the mobile constraints into account while developing their content. The tests are based on the W3C Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 and are implemented in the W3C mobileOK Checker.
• 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 as 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.
• Last Call Working Draft of mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0 — 11 June 2008
  The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has released the fourth Last Call Working Draft of the mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0 document. The document defines the tests that provide the basis for making a claim of W3C mobileOK Basic conformance and are based on the W3C Mobile Web Best Practices. The new version fixes a few errors that appeared during the implementation period of the previous Candidate Recommendation. The community is invited to review and comment the document before 30 June 2008.
• Global Dialogue with W3C Workshop Participants in Sao Paulo, Brazil — 3 June 2008
  You are invited today 3 June 2008, from 12:30 to 2:30 pm ET, to join a discussion with the international participants attending the W3C Workshop on the Role of Mobile Technologies in Fostering Social Development, currently undergoing in São Paulo, Brazil. Participants will address specific challenges of using mobile phones and Web technologies to deliver services to underprivileged populations of developing countries. This Global Dialogue is facilitated by the World Bank's e-Development Thematic Group per request from W3C and its members in Washington DC and São Paulo. The webcast will be available at: http://www.worldbank.org/edevelopment/live
• W3C Launches Group to Help Bridge the Digital Divide — 27 May 2008
  As part of the growing set of W3C initiatives related to social development, W3C MWI invites participation in the new Mobile Web for Development (MW4D) Interest Group, chartered to explore the potential of mobile technology to help bridge the digital divide. This work takes place under the auspices of the European Union's 7th Research Framework Programme (FP7), part of the Digital World Forum project. Read more in the press release.
• Upcoming June 2008 events:
  • Steve Bratt presents at Next Generation Mobile Internet Industry Conference 2008, 26 June 08, Frankfurt, Germany
  • Stéphane Boyera presents at the 5th EuroAfriCa-ICT Concertation Meeting, 26 June 08, Brussels, Belgium
• W3C to conduct a training course on Mobile Web Best Practices — 27 May 2008
  W3C is organizing an online course to introduce Web developers and designers to W3C's Mobile Web Best Practices. The online course will run for four weeks - from May 26 to June 20 2008.
• Web Compatibility Test for Mobile Browsers — 16 April 2008
  The Mobile Web Test Suites Working Group has released a stable version of its Web CompatibilityTest for Mobile Browsers, and is calling the community to send report of browser supports and feedback on the test itself. Read more about the design of the test.
• First draft of Content Transformation Guidelines — 15 April 2008
  The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has released its first draft of the Content Transformation Guidelines. 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. As always, comments on the document are welcome.
• First publication of W3C API for Device Description Repositories — 9 April 2008
  The Device Description Working Group published the first official publication of their Device Description Repository Simple API. This API will allow content developers to use a uniform set of functions calls across device descriptions repositories and across languages, when developing content tailored to take into account a range of factors such as screen size, markup language support and image format support. Please send feedback on this document (before May 1st) before its further progress on the W3C Recommendation track.
• Call for Participation for the W3C Workshop on the Role of MobileTechnologies in Fostering Social Development — 29 February 2008
  Position papers are due 20 April for the W3C Workshop on the Role of Mobile Technologies in Fostering Social Development on 2-3 June 2008 in São Paulo, Brazil. The goal of the workshop is to understand specific challenges of using mobile phones and Web technologies to deliver services to underprivileged populations of developing countries.
• March/April 2008 events:
  • Stephane Boyera presents at HFT2008 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 19 March 08.
  • Philipp Hoschka will present at Mobile Internet, to be held in Berlin, Germany, from 31 March to 3 April 08.
  • On 4-5 April 08, Francois Daoust will participate in the Over the Air event, in London, UK.
  • The W3C track @ the WWW08 conference holds a MWI session, on 23 April, in Beijing, China.
• W3C mobileOK checker released as Beta — 8 February 2008
  W3C invites Web content authors to run the beta release of the W3C mobileOK checker and make their content work on a broad range of mobile devices. Since the alpha release, many bugs have been squashed, and the coverage of the spec has been significantly increased. This new version provides more accurate results and a more reliable experience in general. The mobileOK checker Task Force in the Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group welcomes any feedback on the tool and suggestions for improving it.
• January/March 2008 events:
  • Matt Womer will chair a panel at Mobile Web USA, on 23 January 2008, in San Francisco, USA.
  • MWI will exhibit at the Mobile World Congress, known as the largest mobile event in the world. We will welcome visitors in Hall