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Mobile Web Authoring Current Status

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: Mobile Web, Scripting and Ajax.

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.

Standards

2010-12-14

Mobile Web Application Best Practices

translations · errata

This document specifies best practices for the development and delivery of Web applications on mobile devices.

2008-12-08

W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0

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mobileOK Basic assesses basic usability, efficiency and interoperability for Web content delivered to mobile devices.

2008-07-29

Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0

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The Mobile Web Best Practices specificies best practices for delivering Web content to mobile devices, with a principal objective to improve the user experience.

Group Notes

2009-12-08

Mobile Web for Social Development Roadmap

The purpose of this document is to help people understand the current challenges of deploying development-oriented services on mobile phones, evaluate existing technologies, and identify the most promising directions to lower the barriers of developing, deploying and accessing services on mobile phones and thereby creating an enabling environment for more social-oriented services to appear.

2009-10-20

Extended Guidelines for Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0

This document supplements the Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 by providing additional evaluatio ns of conformance to Best Practice statements and by providing additional interpret ations of these statements.

2009-08-25

W3C mobileOK Scheme 1.0

The mobileOK scheme allows content providers to promote their content as being suitable for use on very basic mobile devices.

2009-07-09

Relationship between Mobile Web Best Practices (MWBP) and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)

This technical report describes the similarities and differences between the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and the Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0.

2005-12-20

Scope of Mobile Web Best Practices

The Scope of Mobile Web Best Practices identifies the nature of problems that made the Web unattractive for most mobile users, and outlines the scope of work that needed to be undertaken.

1999-03-15

HTML 4.0 Guidelines for Mobile Access

HTML 4.0 Guidelines for Mobile Access represents one of the early attempt at developing guidelines to make Web content useful on mobile devices.

Drafts

Below are draft documents: Last Call Drafts, other Working Drafts. Some of these may become Web Standards through the W3C Recommendation Track process. Others may be published as Group Notes or become obsolete specifications.

Last Call Drafts

2011-12-01

DeviceOrientation Event Specification

This specification defines several new DOM event types that provide information about the physical orientation and motion of a hosting device.

Other Working Drafts

2011-05-12

Points of Interest Core

The Points of Interest Core describes a data model and XML syntax for representing information about points of interest on the World Wide Web.