Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group News

A bit before the end of 2008, the Mobile Web Best Practices working group published an updated draft of the Mobile Web Application Best Practices document. The best practices are still incomplete, some may disappear in the future, others may be added, the appropriate level of expertise still needs to be adjusted, but the document already provides an overview of the different areas that are being considered by the working group.

The working group is seeking feedback on the best practices, and in particular on:

• techniques for securing personal data on mobile devices, and the relative impacts of using HTTPS and other techniques, see Use HTTPS when Exchanging User Credentials.
• an example "Safe EVAL" algorithm that can be included in the document, or a publicly available library that can be referenced, see Use a Safe EVAL for JSON Datafeeds
• best/most-commonly used tools to minimize the size of a Web application, see Minimize application size.
• the relative impacts of Web application activities on battery life, see Use Power-Efficient Methods.
• the use of techniques aimed at separating out Javascript and CSS that are rarely used, and in particular the use of iframe on devices, see Separate Rarely Used Functionality
• specific SVG best practices, see SVG.

The working group hopes it can move forward relatively quickly on this document so that it becomes stable by mid-2009.

Looking forward for your feedback on the public-bpwg-comments@w3.org public mailing-list! (with public archive).