MWI Team Blog

I’ve been working over the past few weeks on a nifty little tool that summarizes a number of W3C technologies, including the Mobile Web Best Practices, in a mobile-friendly format, called the W3C Cheatsheet.

See my post in the W3C blog to learn more about it, and send your feedback!

Back in June, I noted that a new group that would work on Javascript APIs to access device features (such as a camera, an addressbook, a calendar, etc.) had been proposed for review to W3C Members.

Since then, not only was the group approved and started, but we even got our first publication out: a Working Group note describing the expected requirements for these device APIs.

Of course, that document may seem a bit abstract at a first glance: you'll see no API defined in there, nothing with which to play.

But if you think Device APIs are a great opportunity for the Web platform (on mobile and elsewhere), I strongly encourage you to take a look at that document and check if the requirements highlighted there match what you know you'll need from these APIs - and if they don't, please let the Working Group know!

As quite a few of you have already found out, info on MWI is available on twitter (and has been for a while; on an "experimental" basis).

There are currently two MWI-related twitter channels:

• mobiweb: The main MWI channel. It distributes RSS feeds of MWI news as blog entries and shared bookmarks from the folks working on MWI at W3C. It also contains "sponatenous" tweets by MWI folks, e.g. live reporting from conferences relevant for MWI.
• pmobiweb: Distributes the RSS feed of the popular "Planet Mobile Web". Most importantly, it provides an archive of past entries (since the planet does not provide an archive of older entries).

Hope this is useful, and if you want, follow us!