Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group News

The Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 was published as a W3C Recommendation last week.

The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group had been waiting for that to happen for some time now. This final move forward on the Recommendation track depended on the publication of XHTML Basic 1.1, the recommended Mobile markup language, as a W3C Recommendation as well. This was done at the same time.

Both are excellent news for the Mobile Web!

The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group especially welcomes the recognition of its Best Practices by the other Working Groups and the community at large. It strongly encourages content providers and developers of content authoring tools to keep them in mind and put them into practice. The summary page could be a useful online companion, while the Mobile Web Best Practices flipcards are a fairly cool pocket reminder!

The work of the Working Group regarding Best Practices is not over yet. While the set of Best Practices this document contains essentially referred to the development of Mobile Web pages, it occurred to the Working Group that Mobile Web Applications offered incredible possibilities in terms of user interaction. It started working on a set of Best Practices focused on Mobile Web Applications. The First Public Working Draft of the Mobile Web Application Best Practices was published last week as well. Much work remains to be done on this new document. The Working Group is looking for feedback (see the Status of This Document section for details).