3GWeb Project: "Web Beyond 3G"
This is the home page of the 3GWeb project, financed by the European Commission's IST Program (Unit D1 - Communication Technologies).
3GWeb aims to significantly improve the usability, interoperability and integration of European mobile Web technology.
3GWeb will conduct European dissemination activities on W3C’s “Mobile Web Initiative”, including communication activities, training of content providers on MWI-developed “Mobile Web Best Practices”, the development of quality-assurance support under the umbrella of an MWI-developed “MobileOK” trust-mark and workshops and working groups bringing together Web technologists and designers of mobile and wireless networks beyond 3G.
The project started on January 1st 2006, and has a duration of 24 months.
Communication material
| Brochure | Flipcards |
|---|---|
| The
Web on the Move
(2006/08) |
Mobile Web Best
Practices Flip Cards
(2007/02) Translations: German, Spanish, Korean
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Latest News
- Next Events in 2008:
- Matt Womer will chair a panel at Mobile Web USA, on 23 January 2008, in San Francisco, USA.
- MWI will exhibit at the Mobile World Congress, known as the largest mobile event in the world. We will welcome visitors in Hall 7, at stand 7D56, from 11 to 14 February 2008.
- W3C MobileOK To Help Make Web Sites Mobile Friendly
— 22 November 2007
W3C invites Web authors to run the alpha release of the W3C mobileOK checker and make their content work on a broad range of mobile devices. The checker runs the tests defined in the W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0 Candidate Recommendation. Read the press release and testimonials. - Mobile Ajax: Workshop Report — 16 October 2007
The report of the Workshop on Mobile Ajax, co-sponsored by W3C and the OpenAjax Alliance, is available. Among areas the Workshop identified as needing attention are JavaScript access to device APIs, offline/disconnected operation, widgets, mashups and security. The Workshop was held in Mountain View, CA, USA, hosted by Microsoft. - MWI in October 2007
- Matt Womer presents the Mobile Web Best Practices at Mobile Web Americas, on 4 October, in Orlando, USA
- W3C Mobile Web Initiative hosts the 8 October 07 MobileMonday London. The event, entitled "The Mobile Web Revisited", will be held at the CBI Conference Centre. The doors will open at 6pm with a swift start to the evening at 6.30pm as normal.
- Dominique Hazaël-Massieux participates at the first MobileWebCamp Paris, on Saturday 13 October, to be held at the Cirque d'Hiver Bouglione.
- Call for Contributions to Open Mobile Web Test Suite
— 30 July 2007
The Mobile Web Test Suites Working Group is launching a call for contributions to build an Open Mobile Web Test Suite. This test suite, built by the community for the community, is intended to be a reference tool to describe the level of technologies support in Mobile Web Browsers available today. By submitting test cases (as described in the submissions guidelines) illustrating authoring practices, Mobile Web developers can contribute to a better understanding of the current limitations of user agents, which helps paving the way to better mobile web browsers tomorrow. - Slides and audio track available for the Mobile Web Webinar in
German — 19 July 2007
W3C organized a free webinar in German entitled "W3C Richtlinien für das Mobile Web" on 17 July 2007. Philipp Hoschka showed how you can benefit from the expertise collected through the documents and tools provided by the W3C MWBP WG. Slides and audio track (mp3 - 14MB) are available (see also MWI W3C Webinars homepage). - Dominique Hazaël-Massieux is Mobile Web Initiative Activity
Lead — 13 July 2007
W3C has named Dominique Hazaël-Massieux to the position of Mobile Web Initiative Activity Lead. Dominique first joined W3C as Webmaster, did early work on GRDDL, contributed to QA at W3C, served as Team Contact for the Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group, serves as co-Chair of the MWI Test Suites Working Group, and works on mobileOK. W3C wishes to thank Philipp Hoschka who previously led the Activity and continues his roles as W3C Deputy Director for Europe and Ubiquitous Web Domain Leader. - Upcoming Mobile Web Webinar in German—26 June 2007
W3C organizes a free webinar in German entitled "W3C Richtlinien für das Mobile Web" on Tuesday 17 July 2007. Philipp Hoschka will show how you can benefit from the expertise collected through the documents and tools provided by the W3C Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group. Registration is now open. - Workshop on Mobile Ajax: Call for Participation — 24
May 2007
The Workshop on Mobile Ajax, co-sponsored by W3C and the OpenAjax Alliance, is to be held 28 September in the San Francisco Bay area, USA. Attendees will explore use cases for mobile Ajax to help shape its use in mobile Web browsers. Topics might include user experience, application development, support in today's devices and browsers, and whether needs exist for standardization and best practices. The Workshop is free and open to all but position papers (due 15 August) are required. - MWI at Mobile Web 2.0 Forum — 27 March 2007
Philipp Hoschka presented W3C's mobile Web work at the Mobile Web 2.0 Forum Opening Ceremony, on 27 March 2007, Seoul, Korea. - mobileOK Basic: review period extended — 2 March
2007
To allow as many people as possible to send feedback on the Last Call Working Draft of mobileOK Basic, and given the importance that this document should have on the future of the Mobile Web, the Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has decided to extend the review period by one week, until March 13. Please send comments on the document to the working group's public email list public-bpwg-comments@w3.org , a publicly archived mailing list. - Feedback sought on Open Testing Framework for the Mobile
Web — 28 February 2007
The Mobile Web Test Suites Working Group is seeking feedback on a project of developing an Open Testing Framework for the Mobile Web that would permit the community to better assess the support for various authoring practices in user agents available on mobile devices today. Please fill the on-line survey to help us assess the usefulness and feasibility of such a project. - French Webinar on Mobile Web — 26 February 2007
Join us for a free W3C Webinar in French, where you will learn how to make your Web content mobile-friendly. Cédric Kiss (W3C) will present the work of the Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group, including best practices, techniques, the mobileOK mark and a demonstration of the best practices checker. The Webinar will be held on Tuesday 27 February at 14:00 UTC. Attendance is free but registration is required. - Tim Berners-Lee Keynotes 3GSM World Congress — 12
February 2007
Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor of the Web, opened the 3GSM World Congress on Monday 12 February in Barcelona, Spain with a keynote address at the Mobile Innovation Forum. Berners-Lee spoke on the role of innovation and openness in the Web's success, and how the W3C Mobile Web Initiative brings mobile telephony into convergence with the Web and aids in bridging the digital divide.
- The Mobile Web in Developing Countries: Next Steps —
9 February 2007
Based on the W3C Workshop on the Mobile Web in Developing Countries discussions and further conversations, Stéphane Boyera publishes a white paper describing the general framework in which future W3C work may start. - Upcoming Mobile Web Webinar in French — 17 January
2007
W3C organizes a free webinar in French entitled "Meilleures pratiques du Web mobile selon le W3C", on Tuesday 27 February 2007 at 14:00 UTC, to show the French-speaking community how to mobilize their Web content. Based on Dominique Hazaël-Massieux's previous presentation, Cédric Kiss will introduce how you can benefit from the expertise collected through the documents and tools provided by the W3C Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group. Registration is now open. - Mobile Web May Help Bridge the Digital Divide: Workshop
Report — 12 January 2007
W3C has published a report from the Workshop on the Mobile Web in Developing Countries, held in Bangalore, India in December 2006. Workshop participants discussed the needs and challenges facing people in developing economies who use a mobile phone as the primary and often sole platform for accessing the Web. The report presents their findings and proposed next steps. You are invited to join the public forum for discussions about the future: public-mwi-ec@w3.org (archive). - Last Call: W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0 — 11 January
2007
The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0. Comments are welcome through 6 March. These tests provide the basis for making a claim to be W3C mobileOK Basic compliant and are based upon W3C's Mobile Web Best Practices.
- Tim Berners-Lee and MWI at 3GSM'07 — 11 January
2007
Tim Berners-Lee will keynote at the Mobile Innovation Forum of the 3GSM'07 conference in Barcelona, Spain, on Monday 12 February at 9:00am. You are also welcome to visit the W3C-MWI booth located in Hall 7 (#7D56), from 12 to 15 February 2007, and learn how to make your Web content mobile friendly.
Project Summary
European citizens today are not "Optimally Connected Anywhere, Anytime" to the Web. A large majority of European Web users access the Web on fixed-line networks only. Use of mobile networks for accessing the Web has not yet become as widespread in Europe as in other regions of the world (e.g. Japan), because of usability, interoperability and integration problems of the European mobile Web platform.
3GWeb aims to significantly improve the usability, interoperability and integration of European mobile Web technology.
The project is led by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) which was founded by the Web's inventor, Tim Berners-Lee. W3C has been active in the area of mobile Web standards for several years.
3GWeb is integrated with W3C's "Mobile Web Initiative" (MWI), aiming at making the Web ready for next-generation mobile and wireless networks. MWI includes European and international key players in the mobile production chain, such as authoring tool vendors, content providers, handset manufacturers, browser vendors and mobile operators.
3GWeb will conduct European dissemination activities on W3C's "Mobile Web Initiative", including communication activities, training of content providers on MWI-developed "Mobile Web Best Practices", the development of quality-assurance support under the umbrella of an MWI-developed "MobileOK" trust-mark and workshops and working groups bringing together Web technologists and designers of mobile and wireless networks beyond 3G.
Project Objectives
The 3GWeb Project has the following key objectives:
- Improve Usability of European Mobile Web Platform
European mobile web access needs to become more reliable and usable before it can become a serious tool for the day-to-day life of European citizens. This requires that content providers produce content that is easily usable on mobile platforms, i.e. content that is “MobileOK”. - Improve Interoperability of European Mobile Web
Platform
Today’s European mobile web systems contain a range of incompatibilities, often caused by lack of standards conformance. Software such as authoring tools and browsers need to be “MobileOK” to improve interoperability. - Improve Integration of Mobile Web Applications with
Networks
Making mobile Web access a success will require close collaboration between Web technologists and the designers of future network technology, similar to the already ongoing collaboration to bring TV service to designers of future mobile networks. 3GWeb includes coordination meetings, workshops and working groups to foster the exchange between the Web community and the mobile network community.
Partners
The European Research Consortium for Informatics and
Mathematics (ERCIM)
aims to foster collaborative work within the European research community and
to increase co-operation with European industry. Leading research institutes
from eighteen European countries are members of ERCIM.
Working Groups
3GWeb will support W3C Groups that are working towards the goals of the 3GWeb projects. These groups are currently in the process of being established.
Marie-Claire Forgue (mcf at w3.org)
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