W3C To Hold London Mobile Standards Event

Sir Tim Berners-Lee is to lend his support to a drive for mobile Web standards at a W3C event in London later this month…the W3C is holding an event in London to push its Mobile Web Initiative (MWI), which is intended to promote the idea of ‘the Web on the move’ to UK developers. The half-day event on the 15th November will be open to the public and free to attend. “The Mobile Web Initiative’s goal is to make browsing the Web from mobile devices a reality,” said Tim Berners-Lee, W3C director and inventor of the Web, in a statement. “W3C and mobile industry leaders are working together to improve Web content production and access for mobile users and the greater Web.”
Of course many common web practices — pop-ups, rich media and so on — don’t work on mobiles, or are too large and expensive to download. So I doubt whether the general web will ever be completely suitable for mobile viewing…nor do I think it should be. Browsing with a computer would be very boring if everything was designed for mobile screens — sites should detect what is accessing them and respond accordingly.
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