W3C's Mobile Web Initiative, 3GWeb and NEM

Dr. Philipp Hoschka
W3C Deputy Director
Ubiquitous Web Domain Leader

NEM General Assembly - Brussels, Belgium
October 23, 2007

W3C Mobile Web Initiative: Why Best Practices are Needed

3GWeb: W3C Mobile Web Best Practices Checker

• W3C has provided BP checker Software (beta)

  http://www.w3.org/Mobile/check

"mobileOK" Conformance Mark

• mobileOK Basic
  • defines a series of tests for Web content
  • based on subset of Best Practices
  • machine-testable
  • in "last call" - open for comments
• mobileOK
  • includes non-machine testable tests
  • still under development
• Third-party or self-certification

Main Objectives W3C MobiWeb2.0 Project

• Increase Awareness of W3C Mobile Web Initiative in Europe
• Increase Number of Developers Capable of Developing Mobile Web 2.0 Content
• Provide more Test Suites for Mobile Web 2.0 Standards
• Improve mobileOK Validator Tool to include Mobile Web 2.0 applications
• Increase Number of Available Tools for creating mobileOK Content

Further NEM Interest: W3C Technology for Ubiquitous Computing

Multi-device, wireless applications Application development using Web technologies ECMAscript, Markup, Ajax, ... Large pool of developers available Web applications for "Internet of Things"