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Friday, October 13, 2006
WICD Mobile 1.0, advanced Web support for mobile devices
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has released what they call Web Integration Compound Document (WICD) Mobile 1.0, that's an aggregation and subset of specifications being used on the "normal" Web.
It looks promising. It covers what we are used to from PC-optimized web sites, yet with tweaks for mobile devices. It even specifies which bitmap, audio and video formats need to be supported.
What I didn't like so much was that XHTML and ECMAScript is required rather than "street" HTML and Javascript. That means web sites always need to be specifically designed for WICD. I think we've had enough of that already, so browsers need to support the street dialects as well.
WICD Mobile 1.0
(via CEO's Mobility Weblog)
It looks promising. It covers what we are used to from PC-optimized web sites, yet with tweaks for mobile devices. It even specifies which bitmap, audio and video formats need to be supported.
What I didn't like so much was that XHTML and ECMAScript is required rather than "street" HTML and Javascript. That means web sites always need to be specifically designed for WICD. I think we've had enough of that already, so browsers need to support the street dialects as well.
WICD Mobile 1.0
(via CEO's Mobility Weblog)
