Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Making the Web fit for mobile

The World Wide Web Consortium last week published a first public working draft of Device Independent Authoring Language, which is aimed at making it easy to present content on <A HREF="http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6074944.html?tag=zdnn.alert">a wide variety of mobile devices.</A> While it's already possible to tailor Web pages to mobile devices using CSS (Cascading Style Sheet), there's no way of taking account of the differing capabilities of different handhelds, such as screen size, color or resolution. DIAL allows people to specify different layouts for various devices. The draft standard is part of the W3C's Mobile Web Initiative, an effort to make the Web as accessible on the move as it is at people's desks.

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