2004: Mobile Web Chasm

May 2005: Launch of W3C Mobile Web Initiative

Current Sponsors

Improving User Experience

• "Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0" - W3C Proposed Recommendation
  • Use standards such as XHTML Basic
  • Use CSS for styling (no layout tables)
  • Avoid large graphics
  • ...
  • Recommended by Google, .mobi, ...
• "W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0" - W3C Candidate Recommendation
• Open source mobileOK Checker tool and library

MobileOK

• Audience
  • Individual developers
  • Authoring tool makers (Wordpress plugin, CMS, ... )
  • Content adaptation engines
  • Content providers: contracts

• MobileOK sites
  • google.com
  • Wikipedia
  • Die Welt
  • mobile.cebit.de
  • mobil.tagesschau.de

Lowering Development Costs

• Test Suites Working Group
  • Mobile Test harness
  • Community-based Open Mobile Web Test Suite (mobile ACID test, ...)
• Device Description Working Group
  • Standardized API to Device Description Repository
  • Recommended vocabulary
  • Take-up: dotMobi Device Atlas, ...

Mobile Web Initiative 2.0

• Content Transformation Task Force
  • Best practices for content transformation
• Mobile Web Applications/Widgets
  • From mobile Web pages to mobile applications
  • More best practices
  • API to phone internals? Security?
• Ubiquitous Web Applications WG
  • DIAL (Device Independent Authoring Language)
  • DCCI (Delivery Context: Client Interfaces) - Phone APIs
  • ...