Do you deliver mobile web applications?

 Posted on July 30, 2008 at 10:00 am |  By David Rooks
 
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The Mobile Web Best Practices working group has just published a first public working draft of their guidelines for developing and delivering mobile web applications.
If you already build and deliver mobile web applications or plan to then your feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Mobile Web Best Practices gets approved

 Posted on July 30, 2008 at 9:42 am |  By David Rooks
 
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Just a quick note to say that the Mobile Web Best Practices has been rubber stamped as a W3C Recommendation and now officially known as Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0, offering practical advice on creating mobile friendly content.
“Mobile Web content developers now have stable guidelines and maturing [...]

Cuil makes us happy

 Posted on July 30, 2008 at 9:33 am |  By David Rooks
 
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There has been quite a bit of discussion about the new serach engine cuil (rubbish name btw), developed by ex-google employees and claiming to be the worlds biggest web search engine. Some people like it, most people don’t and a  lot of fuss is being made over the images that are displayed along with search [...]

The ACID test

 Posted on March 7, 2008 at 1:33 pm |  By David Rooks
 
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The third iteration of every browser builders best friend / worst enemy has just been released by those diabolical nerds over at the Web Standards Project. For those not familar with it the Acid3 Test is a very clever Web application utilizing the most current web standards in such a way that only a browser [...]

Is your accessible Web site mobile friendly?

 Posted on January 24, 2008 at 10:33 am |  By David Rooks
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Do you have a Web site which is compliant with the W3C’s Web Content Accessiblity Guidelines? If so, you may be interested to see if your site is going to require any additional work in order to make it mobile friendly or, as the W3C calls it Mobile OK.
The W3C has just published a [...]

Next generation HTML gets first public airing

 Posted on January 23, 2008 at 12:51 pm |  By David Rooks
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Yesterday afternoon the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) released the first public working draft of the HTML 5.0 specification. The official press release can be found here. Its taken 11 months since work began on HTML 5.0 for this first public working draft to get released. A pretty impressive effort in my opinion, having [...]

Labels, labels, labels

 Posted on November 1, 2007 at 4:47 pm |  By David Rooks
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I’ve been doing some work on http://contentlabel.org/ and the labeling vocabularies are coming along nicely. We now have vocabs for the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, Section 580, Pan European Game Information, Creative Common Licenses and Mobile OK Basic Tests.
Next on the agenda is a vocabulary for the mobile web best practices and blogs.
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