Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group News

The Mobile Web Application Best Practices was published as a W3C Proposed Recommendation last week, and we are excited about it within the Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group, as the Proposed Recommendation step is the last one before publication as a final W3C Recommendation, and is basically synonymous with stable and implemented.

Indeed, over the last few months, we've been gathering implementation feedback for the specification and created an implementation report. We would like to thank the companies and individuals who helped us build this report!

No major change in this new version of the document, although a few clarifications have been made based on comments received:

• we clarified that the 3.2 Security and privacy section does not attempt to provide an exhaustive survey of security issues and added reference to OWASP for a good summary of common Web security Best Practices.
• we clarified that informational images are not good candidates for spriting in 3.4.6 Aggregate Static Images into a Single Composite Resource (Sprites).
• we added a note that new interaction methods are likely to emerge in the future in 3.5.3 Design for Multiple Interaction Methods and added reference to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 as available guidelines for assistive technology.
• we added another example to the 3.5.6 Make Telephone Numbers "Click-to-Call" section that uses the SMS scheme defined in RFC5724, noting that support for this scheme is limited at the time of writing though.

The final review period for this Proposed Recommendation runs through 19 November 2010. It is more particularly directed at the W3C Membership, although other interested parties may send comments as well.