Comments on: Mobile Interoperability: Mobile Developer Community takes a stance against aggressive usage of reformatting proxies

By: Luca Passani

Luca Passani — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:41:34 +0000

Andrea, it is the same topic, but it is not the same solution.
The Manifesto aims at being much more effective than W3C has managed to be so far.

Anyway, interested readers can find the discussion here:

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/wmlprogramming/message/27166

Luca

By: Roberto Galoppini

Roberto Galoppini — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:53:10 +0000

Ciao Andrea,

nice to hear from you again. The reason behind my support to the initiative is, as you mention, the frustration of the developers. Hindsight is always better to listen to developers’ frustrations, at the end of the day they are building our small (fragmented) mobile world, isn’t it?

By: Andrea Trasatti

Andrea Trasatti — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:36:00 +0000

Roberto,
this is nothing new, really. The W3C has had a Task Force writing a guideline for a few months. The Task Force works completely open and everyone is welcome to add their comments on the mailing list.

The editor’s drafts have been public for quite some time and they are not so different from what Luca is promoting. See the Content Transformation Guidelines.

This is why I think that while the manifesto certainly shows clearly the frustration of the developers, I don’t see much need for it if not to join forces with who has been working on this for months (also getting involved network operators and vendors such as Novarra and Drutt).