Comments on: W3C Mobile Web Seminar - 16 November 2006 - Paris, France

By: john

john — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 03:35:00 +0000

Very good article. Is there any seminar that going to be held soon similar to this one?

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Does Adaptation Trump Copyright? | StayGoLinks — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 09:37:50 +0000

[...] One of the key processes in achieving Thematic Consistency, which is a prime objective of the One Web Principle, is what is called Adaptation. Adaptation of content to render it suitable for mobile devices is the current recommended practice. Andrea Rus of MobileAware in a presentation, �Embracing Device Diversity�, at a W3C Mobile Web Seminar in November 2006 at Paris, France had a very good representation of that. [...]

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By: admin

admin — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:58:49 +0000

Thanks for responding so positively, Andrea and Rotan. I certainly applaud the efforts of all those involved in W3C in pushing forward with these endeavours.

.. also sorry about the mistake, Andrea, which I have corrected.

By: Rotan Hanrahan

Rotan Hanrahan — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:30:39 +0000

My colleague, Andrea, does suggest that it is challenging for all but the professionals, but his point is that this should not be the case. Adaptation works (as several specialist companies can prove) but it is only accessible to those who can affort the professional solutions. What about the ordinary authors? The Web was created not by a small number of professional content/service providers, but by a mass of ordinary authors. To replicate this success in the mobile Web it will be necessary to make it easy to create content. And that means access to basic adaptation, which in turn implies access to basic device information. As chair of the DDWG, I am committed to working with my W3C partners to provide a technology that can make device descriptions available for adaptation solutions so that the Web can grow through adaptable authoring. This isn’t just about the mobile end users, this is also about the authors and everyone else in the Web community. We plan to do this work in the open, and we will welcome any constructive comments and contributions that people can offer to help us reach our goal.

Thank you for helping to spread the word.

—Rotan.

By: Andrea Rus

Andrea Rus — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 09:33:06 +0000

Dear Barry

thank you for your article following my presentation at the W3C Mobile Web Initiative seminar

With regards to a satisfying user experience, we believe in allowing standard web authors to create adaptable web applications that, taking into account contextual info such as the one provided by the Device Description Working Group, can best represent themselves on mobile devices.

Andrea