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W3C releases mobile Web recommendations
by Teresa von Fuchs on July 29, 2008

The World Wide Web consortium or W3C announced new standards that it hopes will make mobile Web browsing easier. Published as a W3C recommendation, the groups says it Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 “condenses the experience of many mobile Web stakeholders into practical advice on creating mobile-friendly content.”

Dominique Hazaël-Massieux, leader of the W3C Mobile Web Activity program, said in a statement: “In support of the W3C mission of building One Web, we want to support the developer community by providing tools to enable a great mobile Web user experience.”

The groups says that it hopes its recommendations will help mobile content developers deal with the challenges of designing Web content for a variety of mobile devices, not just the iPhone or Android-based handsets. Along with its recommendations, the W3C released a mobile Web code checker that allows developers to test mobile-friendly Web code.

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