W3C looks to make mobile Web browsing easier

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), an international consortium, which aims to develop Web standards, has released a document that has the hopes of making browsing the Web from a mobile device as easy as it is on a desktop computer. The document, called Mobile Web Best Practices, was developed from a Working Group, which included representation from 30 organizations, including AOL, AT&T, Google, Microsoft, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Opera Sotware, and Vodafone.

The Mobile Web Best Practices document was generated as a result of the efforts of the W3C's Mobile Web Initiative. Using the document, Web developers will be able to use a standard method by which to create websites that work with mobile devices. The “best practices” document includes methods to avoid inconveniences when browsing the Internet on a mobile device such as pop-ups and page-scrolling.

Considering the number of cellphones, smartphones, and PDAs that are capable of browsing the Internet, it is time for a standard way of creating Web pages for mobile devices. The explosive growth means that the W3C is working to catch up to push forward its initiative of making browsing on a mobile device as easy as it is on the desktop.