The goal of this document is to aid the development of rich and dynamic mobile Web applications. It collects the most relevant engineering practices, promoting those that enable a better user experience and warning against those that are considered harmful.
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This is the W3C Recommendation of Mobile Web Application Best Practices. This document was developed by the Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group as part of the Mobile Web Initiative.
Since publication as a Proposed Recommendation on 21 October 2010, the Working Group clarified that alternative compression formats (such as EXI) referred to in section 3.4.1 Use Transfer Compression may not share some of the impediments of common compression formats. A diff version is available. No substantive change has been made.
The document contains statements that may be regarded as forward-looking when this document is published (14 December 2010). Examples provided in the How to do it sections sometimes reference on-going works on technologies that the Working Group expects to become prevalent in the development community soon. These sections should be taken with a grain of salt, depending on the actual evolution of these technologies. The best practices statements should remain valid in any case. An implementation report is available.
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