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The Mobile Web For Social Development (MW4D) Interest Group, part of the Mobile Web Initiative, has published a Group Note of Mobile Web for Social Development Roadmap. This document describes some of the current challenges of deploying development-oriented services on mobile phones. It suggests the most promising directions for lowering barriers to developing, deploying and accessing services on mobile phones and thereby creating an enabling environment for more social-oriented services to appear.

The review period for the two Last Call working drafts published by the Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group last month ends tomorrow. This is a reminder that the public community is invited to review and comment the drafts:

• The Guidelines for Web Content Transformation Proxies provides guidance to implementers of Content Transformation proxies as to whether and how to transform Web content. This version is the result of returning the document to Last Call based on public feedback received during the first review period.
• The Mobile Web Application Best Practices specifies Best Practices for the development and delivery of Web applications on mobile devices.

Comments should be sent to the public-bpwg-comments@w3.org mailing-list (with public archives). Thanks in advance!

The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group published a Last Call Working Draft of Guidelines for Web Content Transformation Proxies. The document provides guidance to implementers of Content Transformation proxies as to whether and how to transform Web content.

The document has already been published as a Last Call a year ago under the title "Content Transformation Guidelines", and has been updated based on feedback from reviewers. The Working Group invites the mobile developer community to review the draft once more and send feedback by 6 November 2009, sending comments to the public-bpwg-comments@w3.org mailing-list (archive).