ISSUE-284: W3C mobile addressing standards

W3C mobile addressing standards

State:
CLOSED
Product:
Guidelines for Web Content Transformation Proxies
Raised by:
Jo Rabin
Opened on:
2008-11-15
Description:
One of the reasons for not suggesting heurisitcs is that they are easily misunderstood. In the following developers guide

http://www.vzwdevelopers.com/aims/public/OptimizedViewOptout.jsp

Verizon seems to be saying that W3C recommends using addressing prefixes and suffixes of the kind listed. This is very much the opposite of what is intended.

I think we need:

a) to make it plain that in the absence of any such indication *nothing" can be inferred especially not that the site is not mobile and that that assuming that the site requires PC User agent in that case is absolutely contrary to the CT Guideleines

b) make it even clearer that the heurisitcs we offer are just that, observations of what people do, and that these are absolutely not endorsed.

That said, I find it hard to see how Verizon can have made such a mistake with the current draft. Perhaps someone should tell them that they are in error.

Jo
Related Actions Items:
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Related emails:
  1. Re: CTG: clarifications needed / HTTP header fields, URI patterns (from fd@w3.org on 2009-06-22)
  2. RE: Content Transformation Guidelines 1r (from SPatterson@Novarra.com on 2009-06-15)
  3. Re: Content Transformation Guidelines 1r (from passani@eunet.no on 2009-06-08)
  4. Content Transformation Guidelines 1r (from jrabin@mtld.mobi on 2009-06-07)
  5. [minutes] F2F Day 2 - 26 March 2009 - Content Transformation Guidelines (from fd@w3.org on 2009-03-30)
  6. [minutes] CT Call Tuesday 25 November 2008 (from fd@w3.org on 2008-11-25)
  7. [agenda] CT Call 25 November 2008 (from fd@w3.org on 2008-11-24)
  8. ISSUE-284: W3C mobile addressing standards [Guidelines for Web Content Transformation Proxies] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2008-11-15)

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Jo Rabin <jo@linguafranca.org>, Daniel Appelquist <daniel.appelquist@vodafone.com>, Chairs, Dominique Hazaël-Massieux <dom@w3.org>, François Daoust <fd@w3.org>, Staff Contacts
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