As from today 29th July the W3C’s Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 became official and is a full W3C recommendation on the best way to build and develop on the mobile web.
“…document specifies Best Practices for delivering Web content to mobile devices. The principal objective is to improve the user experience of the Web when accessed from such devices.”
Like other developing, and developed technologies on the World Wide Web, now the W3C brings a recommendation for utilizing standards and good practices in any mobile website build. Now all that needs to happen is that all the major players in the mobile market fall in behind the recommendation and build their products that are based more around standards and not proprietary.
Looks like the blogosphere is moving more strongly into the mobile arena. Almost ready for launch is the new Wordpress for iPhone that will be supporting self-hosted blogs running 2.5.1 or later.
This is good news for blogging-on-the-go and its a feature that has long been awaited amongst users who like to blog whilst on the move. More information about it here: Wordpress for iPhone.
With already over three times the number of mobile phones on the planet than desktop or portable computers the Web was destined to go mobile. However, there are challenges, reminiscent of the early days of the Internet where lack of coherent standards and the melee of big business encouraged divergence instead of a coherent, logical and structured level of technological development. In other words, access to the Internet has been available for mobile users but the huge number of differing platforms – basically phones or handheld devices – meant actual Web content delivery has been extremely patchy, often with poor page layout, cumbersome navigation and, at worse, terse error scripts and no content.
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