This page summarizes the relationships among specifications, whether they are finished standards or drafts. Below, each title
links to the most recent version of a document.
For related introductory information, see: Device Independence and Content Adaptation, Mobile Web.
Completed Work
W3C Recommendations have
been reviewed by W3C Members, by software developers, and by other
W3C groups and interested parties, and are endorsed by the
Director as Web Standards. Learn more about the W3C Recommendation
Track.
Group Notes are not standards and do not
have the same level of W3C endorsement.
Group Notes
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2009-05-12
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This document offers guidance in the form of simple guidelines to follow to create device-independent tests for Web technologies.
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2006-03-20
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This document describes the set of properties that characterizes the capabilities of the device, the preferences of the user and other aspects of the context into which a Web page is to be delivered, known as the delivery context, and explores how to detect and make use of that context.
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2004-02-18
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The document provides a summary of several techniques and best practices that Web authors can employ when creating and delivering content to a diverse set of devices.
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2003-09-01
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This document offers principles that can lead towards the achievement of greater device independence for Web content and applications.
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2003-09-01
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This document discusses the challenges that authors commonly face when building web content and applications that can be accessed by users via a wide variety of different devices with different capabilities.
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Obsolete Specifications
These specifications have either been superseded by others,
or have been abandoned. They remain available for archival
purposes, but are not intended to be used.
Retired
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2010-06-29
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This document specifies an XML-based syntax and processing model for general purpose content selection and filtering that can be used to deliver content adapted to a wide range of devices.
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2010-06-29
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2010-06-29
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This document specifies a set of XPath functions designed for DISelect that can be used to manipulate the delivery context associated with a request for an item of content.
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2010-06-29
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The purpose of the Device Independent Authoring Language (DIAL) is to provide a markup language for the filtering and presentation of Web page content available across different delivery contexts.
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2010-06-29
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This primer is designed to provide the reader with the basic knowledge required to make effective use of DISelect.
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2009-04-09
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This document explores the existing and in development technologies available to adapt Web content to the user's preferences, needs, device, and environment.
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2005-01-18
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This document is a glossary of terms used in other device-independence related documents.
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2003-05-10
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This document sets out the requirements for defining core presentation characteristics that provide a common set of property definitions of devices presentation capabilities.
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