Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group
The W3C Members chartered the Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group in 2005 as part of the Mobile Web Initiative (sponsors) to develop a set of technical best practices and associated materials in support of development of web sites that provide an appropriate user experience on mobile devices.
The group operates in public, through several Task Forces, including work on a Java implementation of a mobileOK checker library. The group interacts with the community at large, working in public in its publicly archived mailing list public-bpwg@w3.org, and welcome comments on its documents on the archived mailing list public-bpwg-comments@w3.org.
Daniel Appelquist and Jo Rabin chair the group. The W3C Staff Contacts are François Daoust and Dominique Hazaël-Massieux. See how to join the Working Group.
The group operates under the W3C Patent Policy (5 February 2004 Version). Information about patent disclosures by group participants and other requirements of the W3C Patent Policy is available.
Draft documents and logistics are available on the group page.
To learn more about the Mobile Web Best Practices, readers may find it useful to take a look at the Mobile Web Best Practices flipcards that summarize the best practices and/or to check their web site for mobile-friendliness using the W3C mobileOK checker based on the library developed by the Working Group.
Latest news
- Best practices to develop Mobile Web applications—5 January 2009
- W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0 is a W3C Recommendation!—8 December 2008
- mobileOK Scheme—17 November 2008
- mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0 - One step to go!—3 November 2008
- Mobile-friendly redesign of the BPWG's Web site—21 August 2008
- Content Transformation Guidelines in Last Call—6 August 2008
- Mobile Web Best Practices published as a W3C Recommendation!—6 August 2008
- Doing both Mobile Web Best Practices and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines—9 July 2008
- mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0 document - new Last Call—11 June 2008
- Content Transformation guidelines - working draft—15 April 2008
Published Documents
- The Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 - Basic Guidelines document — W3C Recommendation — specifies best practices for Web content when accessed from mobile devices.
- The W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0 document — W3C Recommendation — defines machine tests based on the Best Practices to ease Mobile Web content authoring.
- The Content Transformation Guidelines document — W3C Last Call Working Draft — guidance to content transformation proxies and content providers as to how inter-work when delivering Web content.
- The Mobile Web Application Best Practices document — W3C Public Working Draft — specifies Best Practices for the development and delivery of Web applications on mobile devices. The recommendations expand and amplify upon general statements made in the Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 document.
- The Relationship Between Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines document — W3C Public Working Draft — discusses the similarities and differences between accessibility and mobility.
Dominique Hazaël-Massieux and François Daoust, W3C Team Contacts