Is your Web
mobile? Is your Web
mobile? Is your Web mobile? Come and test it at the W3C's Mobile Web Initiative booth in Hall 7 (#7D56)!!
If your Web site is mobile-friendly and passes the online W3C mobileOK checker, then we will be happy to offer you the coolest t-shirt of the entire Mobile World Congress... Trust us!
With the growing number of consumers using mobile devices, such as cell phones and PDAs, to access the Internet, it's important to make sure Web sites can be accessed by potential customers using these devices. While the Internet works essentially the same on mobile devices as it does on computers, both commercial firms and users want to be sure the information on Web sites is easy to read and navigate.
With the support of international mobile industry leaders, W3C launched the Mobile Web Initiative (W3C-MWI) in May 2005, with the aim to use existing standards in documentable ways to improve the mobile experience on the Web. The first results of this year and a half work are already implementable by all of us, from developpers to simple users.
Key players in the mobile industry have reached an agreement on best practices for mobile Web content, an important step in W3C's project to make Web access from a mobile device as simple, easy, and convenient as Web access from a desktop device. Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 sets out a series of recommendations designed to promote more effective delivery of Web content to mobile devices.
Authors and other content producers will value the shared experience of how to create content that makes browsing convenient on mobile devices and to avoid known pitfalls on those devices (such as pop-ups and page-scrolling).
W3C staff and MWI Sponsors representatives will be available for questions at the W3C-MWI stand.
From the W3C staff:
The Mobile Web Initiative (MWI) is one of the twenty-two W3C
Activities.
MWI is composed of three Working Groups:
The Mobile Web Initiative is led by key players in the mobile production chain, including authoring tool vendors, content providers, adaptation providers, handset manufacturers, browser vendors and mobile operators. There are nineteen MWI Sponsors: Ericsson, France Telecom, HP, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, TIM Italia, Vodafone Group Services Limited, Afilias, Bango, Jataayu Software, Mobileaware Ltd., Opera Software, Segala, Sevenval AG, Rulespace and Volantis Systems Ltd.
Press and analysts are welcome to contact Marie-Claire Forgue at mcf at w3.org (cell: +33 6 76 86 33 41) for any questions as well as to schedule an appointment with the W3C staff cited above during the 3GSM'07 exhibition days.
Press Resources
The mission of W3C's Mobile Web
Initiative (W3C MWI) is to make Web access from a mobile device as
simple, easy, and convenient as Web access from a desktop device. Through the
MWI Sponsorship Program,
key players in the mobile production chain, including authoring tool vendors,
content providers, handset manufacturers, adaptation providers, browser
vendors and mobile operators lead the Initiative. MWI participants develop
authoring guidelines, checklists and best practices, as well as a database of
descriptions that can be used by content authors to adapt their content to a
particular device. For more information see http://www.w3.org/Mobile/
See also About the World
Wide Web Consortium to learn more about the W3C's overall mission and
goals.
Partly
supported by the MobiWeb2.0 project, financed by the European Commission's IST Program.
Marie-Claire Forgue (mcf at w3.org)
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