DDR Simple API Early Implementation

The MyMobileWeb team is pleased to announce the availability of an early implementation of W3C’s DDR Simple API specification, which has been published yesterday as a Last Call Working Draft. This API is described as “Simple” in anticipation of a future more advanced API which will have a much wider scope.

http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-DDR-Simple-API-20080404/

From the Abstract:

“Web content delivered to mobile devices usually benefits from being tailored to take into account a range of factors such as screen size, markup language support and image format support. Such information is stored in “Device Description Repositories” (DDRs).This document describes a simple API for access to DDRs, in order to ease and promote the development of Web content that adapts to its Delivery Context.”

Our implementation is based on WURFL and UAProf data and supports the W3C’s Core Vocabulary and the MyMobileWeb’s vocabulary (the vocabulary used by MyMobileWeb to adapt content and applications). It is flexible enough to incorporate other data sources if available.

The implementation can be downloaded at

http://forge.morfeo-project.org/frs/download.php/314/DevInfo-Simple0.9.1.tar.gz

We are now working on integrating MyMobileWeb with the API implementation. We anticipate that our product will be one of the first open source adaptation tools that will use this new API.

Comments on the implementation are welcome. Please send comments to ddr-ri-develop@lists.morfeo-project.org