Telefónica I+D is organizing the DDWG group and W3C International Workshop F2F meeting to be held on 11, 12 and 13 July, which is to debate the definition of future technology for the device information description mechanisms. These meetings will focus on the W3C’S Mobile Web Initiative (MWI), whose global objective is to make WWW access as simple and pleasurable for users of mobile devices as it is from conventional computers.
There is an increasing range of devices capable of accessing the Web, and contents adaptation mechanisms are expected to play a very significant role in the development of mobile gateways and applications. Mobile Web devices are hugely diverse and, therefore, pose the most significant challenge.The quality of the user’s Web experience with mobile devices will be highest if the applications have information about the device the user is connecting from at all times. Making this information easily available to the content adaptation processes will amount to an important evolution in the Web. For example, the selection of table columns could depend on the physical size of the screen. If this knowledge is not available, contents will not be adapted before delivery.
The MWI Device Description Working Group (DDWG), in which members of the Morfeo community are active participants, has specified a set of requirements that device description repositories should satisfy. The workshop will be the conclusion of the DDWG’s first charter and will try to explore what the best technological alternatives for building this repository and representing the information to be stored are likely to be.
The organization of this workshop is related to Morfeo’s line of work on defining standards based on the MyMobileWeb project. This research materialized in Telefónica I+D’s active participation in W3C and the Asturias-based Fundación CTIC’s contribution to the MWI and the Web Application Formats working groups.
