Mobile Web Best Practices

Filed in archive Internet on August 17, 2008

The W3C just released a document detailing the Mobile Web Best Practices for developers of web content. This is extremely useful for those who are always untethered but connected to the web via mobile devices.

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Whilst this seems to have documented what are needed for the Mobile Web, the question is - is it still needed considering that devices are rapidly providing support for the "desktop web", if there is such a term? Take the case of Opera and Mobile Safari - both renders the "real" web instead of some reduced version of the sites. Anyway, this is still a welcome document.

What is quite interesting, though, is the absence of Apple in the list of sponsors.

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Isn't it to the best interest of Apple to be defining the mobile web best practices? Isn't the iPhone one of the most popular internet devices available in the market today?