Friday, January 16, 2004
W3C Issues Mobile Device Spec
Posted by Jason Dunn in "NEWS" @ 12:52 AM
"The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) today recommended a standard to help handheld computers and smartphones communicate with Web servers about displaying content. The schema, the Composite Capability/Preference Profiles (CC/PP): Structure and Vocabularies 1.0 (CC/PP 1.0), is a system for expressing device features and user preferences using the Resource Description Framework (RDF), a spec that makes Web applications work with Web servers.
CC//PP is being shepherded by a W3C working group that includes Ericsson, Nokia and Sun Microsystems. While many rich applications using XML or XHTML run on a host of devices from different vendors, they don't all provide access to Web content because there was, until now, no standard language to communicate that data, W3C spokeswoman Janet Daly said."
This is great news for mobile devices! I'm not a Web developer, so I don't fully grasp the depth of this announcement, but it sure sounds like a step in the right direction. Now it remains to be seen how widely adopted this becomes...
CC//PP is being shepherded by a W3C working group that includes Ericsson, Nokia and Sun Microsystems. While many rich applications using XML or XHTML run on a host of devices from different vendors, they don't all provide access to Web content because there was, until now, no standard language to communicate that data, W3C spokeswoman Janet Daly said."
This is great news for mobile devices! I'm not a Web developer, so I don't fully grasp the depth of this announcement, but it sure sounds like a step in the right direction. Now it remains to be seen how widely adopted this becomes...
