Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group News

After a very productive face to face meeting in Cambridge, Massachussets, hosted by France Telecom, the Working Group has made enough progress in its main document to publish an updated Working Draft of the Mobile Web Best Practices, featuring quite a few changes:

• a clean up of the Best Practices that didn't fit well in the mobile-specific context
• the association of a test assertion to each testable best practices, the other ones having been marked as informative
• a clearer model of how content adaptation fits into the general conformance to the document
• a definition of a default delivery context (replacing the notion of a "baseline device" in the previous draft), serving as a point of reference for cases where the content is not or cannot be adapted for a particular device
• a general editorial clean up of the content

This results of a lot of collective work over the past few weeks, and the group is now hoping to reach consensus for a Last Call publication very soon! As a result of this, the group is not actually seeking direct feedback on this document, since it is expected to be updated in a few weeks at most.

In parallel to this, the group has resolved the remaining issues and clarifications regarding the Scope document - which serves as a framework for the main Best Practices document -, and has published an updated version as a Working Group Note, a sign that we're not planning to work further on it except if issues are specifically raised on it.

Stay tuned!