The guys of MIT attended to W3C’s Mobile Web Conference in Boston and talked to Tim Berners-Lee about the future of the so-called mobile web. Internet’s father express his opinion in the following article and announces a new tool launched by W3C to help web developers check their web applications against W3C recommendations for mobile websites. Check the rest of the article in the following Link.
MIT Technology Review: Preserving One Web
I’ve been a strong supporter of the idea of having only one web, equally accessible from any device, independently of their capabilities, screen size, etc.. I don’t believe in initiatives like .mobi because it fragments the web in two. And as many domains we create, many fragments we’ll make. I prefer initiatives like WURFL, the device capabilities database created by Luca Passani. The idea is simple, but extremely powerful. Check who’s requesting your web, determine the best visualization possible and make the user experience as best as possible. In order to achieve this, separating content from presentation is a must. Luckily, we already have the tools to make this (CMS systems, CSS, XSLT,…). My recomendation: read the article and think twice next time you have to create a mobile website.
Link MIT Technology Review
Link WURFL
