Dominique Hazaël-Massieux, responsable de l'Initiative pour le Web Mobile au W3C
http://www.w3.org/2007/Talks/11-parisweb/
Paris, France, 16 novembre 2007
As of December 2008, the Device Description Working Group has finished its work, and a new Interest Group dedicated to Mobile Web for Social Development was created. MWI Group.
91.3% of the French population has a mobile phone subscription as of December 2008 (ARCEP study).
Le document:
The Mobile Web Best Practices were officially published a W3C standard in July 2008.
The Mobile Web Best Practices flipcards are now available as PDF.
The next generation of best practices, focusing on mobile web applications, are under development.
The Mobile Web Initiative organizes on a regular basis on-line training course that go in more details on each of the principles.
À connaître au minimum:
<link rel="stylesheet" media="handheld" />XHTML Basic 1.1 was pulished as W3C Standard in July 2008; see also the XHTML Basic 1.1 Cheat Sheet, and the comparison between the different versions of XHTML.
mobileOK Basic was published as a W3C Standard in November 2008.
The mobileOK Checker was released as 1.0 in November 2008, with a much improved reliability and user interface,and is still being developed and enhanced by W3C.
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The Device Description Repository Simple API was released as a W3C Standard in December 2008.
In July 2008, the Mobile Web Test Suites Working Group released its Web Compatibility Test for Mobile Browsers that identifies at a glance support for a range of Web technologies in mobile browsers.
SVG Tiny 1.2 was released as a W3C Recommendation in December 2008.
A first public working draft of a JavaScript Geolocation API was released in December 2008.
The work on Widgets and Web Applications is making steady progress in the Web Applications Working Group.
An interest group focusing on Mobile Web for Social Development was started in May 2008, and is developing documents to facilitate the deployment of Mobile Web solutions to social difficulties in developing countries; this area of work is also being taken up by the Web Foundation.
VoiceXML and the W3C Speech Interface Framework.
Note that beyond vision problems, a speech interface can also help solving illiteracy problems.
The TALKS system mentioned by Stéphane.
My publication in A List Apart on how to deal with CSS Media Types on mobile devices, and a proposed improved technique on top of that one from Dean Hamack
