A few weeks ago I wrote about the w3c releasing a working draft on the Mobile Web Best practices. I read it and at the end I found myself quite happy with what we have done with our mobile blogs. Of course there is still room for improvement but we have already implemented almost all the best practices, sometimes even more. I thought it might be interesting to go through a few of them in a “Mobile web Best Practice” serie.

Implementations should take all reasonable steps to find out about the device/browser (client) capabilities, adaptation and other transformation that takes place for any instance of an access to a ressource.

Techniques > CC/PP, UAPROF, CSS Media Queries, DDWG output, DIWG material, Wurfl,…

@Kaywa > We use the latest. I found out about Wurfl when developping iFeedYou and bring it at Kaywa. WURFL is “just” a XML file that contains all informations in a hierarchical way needed to establish the context of the device. It contains actually much more information than we need so we use a lighter version that contains only the informations to determine what markup should we serve. It is also used to determine the screen size to resize images and for a few other things.

Since on KAYWA blogs you can also publish sound and video (also by MMS or email) we will also in the futur let know the user if he can read the media on its mobile or even better transform it.

Members of the W3C Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group blog, it is there

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Good user experience!
+1 for Shozu

Looks like Semantics 2005 in Vienna (23-25.11) will have Semapedia Tags and Semacode-enabled Businesscards for all speakers!

Funny we just suggested something similar to another conference with KAYWA.

Two ressources from Forum NOKIA:

Guidelines For Creating Web Content For Mobile And PC Browsing (PDF, Version 1.0; September 27, 2004)

and more recently…

XHTML Guidelines For Creating Web Content (PDF, Version 1.3; Octobe 4, 2005)

A quick tutorial on how to develop a ping interface. Including the client side for testing purpose.
a ‘weblogUpdates.ping’ – like interface for BritBlog

And this post to check Technorati Tag feature generated by Fintan’s generator

Tags: ping server client technorati tag

Cool! A java application that helps to browse and search WURFL!

mDevInf on Sourceforge

Get it there!

The Mobile Technology Weblog: Google’s New Mobile Application? Yes! Local For Mobile (a New Take on Google Maps)
USA Today: Google brings maps to phones

Unfortunately you can not use it out of US for now.

The mobile phone as an ubiquitous capture device  (to record information and visual documentation wherever and whenever it’s needed).

I should think about some of those more often…

• Remember where you parked;
• “Wishlist” items you might want to buy later;
• Show people where you’ve put things;
• Document your fender bender;
• 
  
• Record the hours of a new store;
• Capture inspiring design;
• Hunt for houses and apartments;
• Doublecheck your shopping selection;
• Document your haircut;
• Carry your To-do list

Via 43 folders

One more picture from the conference in Geneva about blogs in education.
The story of the picture above is actually quite interesting,… I took it at the conference, uploaded it on flickr thanks to ShoZu and now I publish it on this blog with flickr thanks to the MetaWeblog API. I could have send it directly to this blog by MMS or email but then I would not have had all the “web 2.0 fun”

Note about ShoZu: It tagged all your picture in flickr with ShoZu and also add some sort of description… well it is free software… for now :-)

Note about Flickr: they have a bench of third party apps, a pretty nice API and some libraries to use them (amongst them a PEAR class, a PHP4 and a PHP5 library)