The World Wide Web Consortium has announced a new standard that will make it easier for developers and content providers to create mobile Web applications. The Mobile Web Application Best Practices, published as a W3C Recommendation, offers practical advice from many mobile Web stakeholders for the easy development and the deployment of mobile Web applications that work across many platforms.
Application designers value the ability to write code once and have it work in multiple environments. According to a white paper from a GIA analyst, the rapid growth of the market for mobile applications has increased the appeal of using the Web as development platform on these devices as well. Web applications are replacing native applications in many computers, it has been observed. Since the Web platform addresses the fragmentation issues so familiar to mobile developers, a similar trend on mobile devices is expected the near future.
Mobile Web Application Best Practices offers guidance on which Web technologies are particularly relevant on mobile devices. The guidelines also indicate how to design Web applications that are responsive to their usage context, while sparing the network and optimising response time to significantly boost the overall mobile user experience.
The Mobile Web Best Practices (MWBP) Working Group participants, including key leaders from the mobile industry, have declared their support for the set of published mobile Web application guidelines. Support from the MobiWebApp project, part of the European Union's 7th Research Framework Programme, enables W3C to continue to actively develop extensive test suites and online training courses in this area.
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