Summary of Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0

[Bob Russell]

Marco Casario is a developer that "intensively collaborates with Adobe Italy as a speaker and promoter of several events and roadshows." One might not really expect him, therefore, to be very interested in making the mobile browsing experience better -- Adobe's Acrobat Reader and Flash formats are notorious for being hard to deal with in mobile browsers.

Nonetheless, Marco has written a summary of the Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to help us understand how to make the mobile web better.

There's also a link in that W3C document to the W3C Mobile Web Initiative Field Trial. "Although many mobile devices can already access the Web, actually browsing the Web from a mobile device is often a frustrating experience. Users normally find that their favourite Web sites are not accessible or more difficult to use on their mobile phone compared with their desktop computer. Content authors have difficulties building Web sites that work well on all types and configurations of mobile phones that offer Web access. The W3C Mobile Web Initiative will initially focus on two areas: best practices and mobile device descriptions."

It's easily to agree with the basic sentiment driving the work: "Mobile access to the Web has been a second class experience for far too long." - W3C Director and Web creator, Tim Berners-Lee.

Via Wireless-Watch.