Wednesday, May 18, 2005
W3C & the Mobile Web Initiative
Posted by Jonathon Watkins in "NEWS" @ 12:00 AM
"The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announced the launch of the Mobile Web Initiative (MWI) during the WWW2005 Conference, an endeavor to make Web access from a mobile device as simple, easy, and convenient as Web access from a desktop device. "Mobile access to the Web has been a second class experience for far too long," explained Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director. "MWI recognizes the mobile device as a first class participant, and will produce materials to help developers make the mobile Web experience worthwhile. " . . . Content providers have difficulties building Web sites that work well on all types and configurations of mobile phones offering Web access. Mobile Web Initiative participants will initially focus on two areas: best practices and mobile device descriptions"
This is certainly to be welcomed. It would be great if 'normal' web pages were accessible from our mobile devices and we weren't sidelined into 'mobile website' cul-de-sacs. Now we just need a decent browser to read the pages with. :wink:
This is certainly to be welcomed. It would be great if 'normal' web pages were accessible from our mobile devices and we weren't sidelined into 'mobile website' cul-de-sacs. Now we just need a decent browser to read the pages with. :wink:
