Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group News

In the past few months, the Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has been pursuing its work on best practices to ease the development of Mobile Web Applications. A third working draft of the Mobile Web Application Best Practices document was published a few days ago.

The set of best practices is not meant to be definitive. That said, the working group believes the document to be fairly stable and does not anticipate major changes based on internal discussions. That is precisely why the working group is eagerly looking for your feedback on the document. Are you a Web Application author with some background in mobile technologies? Are you aware of techniques that should be mentioned in the document? Do you think that one of the best practices look harmful in some case? The group would be glad to hear your comments and update the document consequently!

To provide feedback, simply send an email to the public public-bpwg-comments@w3.org mailing-list (archives) or get in touch with me.

The best practices statements are organized around six axes:

• Application data on using and managing a Web application's data
• Security and Privacy on using and protecting all personally identifiable information
• User Awareness and Control on communicating the hidden behavior of a Web application to end users and allowing them to control it
• Conservative Use of Resources on making sure that the impact of a Web application is as low as possible in a world of constraints
• User Experience on keeping differentiation in mind while developing for mobile devices
• Handling Device Capability Variation on detecting devices capability to provide as good a user experience as possible on a broad range of devices