The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has recently announced ‘Mobile Web Best Practices’ through Mobile Web Initiative. This document specifies best practices for Web content when accessed from mobile devices, with a primary goal is to improve the user experience of the Web when accessed from mobile devices.

According to W3C, “Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0″ condenses the experience of many mobile Web stakeholders into practical advice on creating content that will work well on mobile devices. Authors and other content producers will value the shared experience of how to create content that makes browsing convenient on mobile devices and to avoid known pitfalls on those devices (such as pop-ups and page-scrolling).

This work is part of the W3C Mobile Web Initiative, which is supported by nineteen MWI Sponsors, including key players in the mobile production chain: Afilias, Argogroup, Bango.net, Drutt Corporation, ERICSSON, France Telecom, HP, Jataayu
Software, mTLD, MobileAware, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Opera Software, TIM Italia, RuleSpace, Segala M Test, Sevenval, Vodafone, and Volantis says a press release by W3C.

The framework, Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0, urges the the key players and giants of the mobile phone industry to work together for a better user experience in the mobile web environment. The framework will play a vital role in the W3C presentation at the 3GSM World Congress from 13 to 16 February 2006, in Barcelona, Spain.

This news relieves the doubts in terms of user experience and practical end point terminal issues to some extent. And this is an important development to watch out for, in the view of the increasing penetration of next generation technologies like 3G, UMTS. This should also make WAP/GPRS mobile internet browsing more user friendly. Lets hope everything
will be seamless and users, content providers and operators will benefit from the practices specified by W3C.

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