The W3C has released a set of Mobile Web Best Practice guidelines, providing a consistent framework for developers of content for mobile devices to work with.
In theory, at least.
Today, many more people have access to mobile devices than access to a desktop computer. This is likely to be very significant in developing countries, where Web-capable [...]
Mobile Web Best Practice guidelines
Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 30 July, 2008 to the technology subset
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Friday 21 December 2007
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 21 December, 2007 to the comment subset
Let me hear your standards body talk: further to the ongoing discussion regarding the W3C and the rate at which web standards are produced.
The W3C is maddeningly opaque and its lieutenants will sometimes march madly into the sea, but it is all that stands between us and the whirlwind.
The whirlwind being the chaos that [...]
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The future of web standards
Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 19 December, 2007 to the technology subset
The future of web standards, by James Bennett.
Simmering discontent with the pace, or lack of pace, at which the W3C develops standards, or recommendations, for web based technologies has been boiling over into rage in some quarters recently.
The world of standards-based web design and development has been undergoing something of a shake-up these past few [...]
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Sub standard
Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 7 November, 2007 to the technology subset
The W3C process may be slow, but browser vendors are slower.
W3C web standards such as XHTML and CSS have been formal recommendations since at least 2000, yet some browser manufacturers are still to completely get with the play.
Some argue that you can’t implement any specification until it is a W3C recommendation, but just look at [...]
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