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Mobile Web Best Practices - bringing the guidelines into 2014!
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Don't call it Mobile #9

Open jorabin opened 10 years ago

jorabin commented 10 years ago

Call it "Contextual and Cross Channel Web Best Practices" (C3W)

paulirish commented 10 years ago

"multi-device" or "cross-device"?

mathiasbynens commented 10 years ago

Just call it “best practices”.

jorabin commented 10 years ago

Assuming:

“Multi-device” refers to the ability to deliver a representation that provides at least a “functional user experience” and preferably a “harmonized user experience” in a range of “delivery contexts” (terms chosen from the still unpublished http://www.w3.org/TR/di-gloss/ )

And “cross-device” refers to the ability of a user meaningfully to start, continue and complete tasks across a number of distinct delivery contexts?

The distinction perhaps being that multi-device is a server centric view and cross-device is a user centric view?

I’m going to argue that “device” is a bit too laden with implications about “phone” “tablet” etc and that thinking forward to a world of distributed clients and servers (IoT and Wearables etc. where it’s uncertain that client and server exist at a single point in the network) it’s preferable to my mind to think about delivery context and "access mechanism” (also from http://www.w3.org/TR/di-gloss/).

That’s why I propose Contextual and Cross Channel - contextual to encompass the idea of user preferences as well as the characteristics of the channels they have chosen (or been forced) to use in the course of carrying out a task.

Not to mention that it appeals to me to have the initialism C3W for Contextual and Cross Channel Web, because it’s W3C backwards.

jorabin commented 10 years ago

Re "Just call it “best practices”. I agree with the sentiment in the sense of “The Web is /for/ Mobile, Stupid!” however, the existence of the Web and Mobile Interest Group is predicated on the assumption that a significant constituency needs to be alerted to a change that happened a while ago.