W3C recommends mobile Web standard
Martin LaMonica Former Staff writer, CNET News
Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT publication InfoWorld.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) published on Thursday a recommended standard for improving the Web-surfing capabilities of handheld devices such as cell phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs).
The technical specification, called "Composite Capability/Preference Profiles (CC/PP): Structures and Vocabularies 1.0," is a system for enabling a device to communicate information--such as the device's display capabilities and user preferences--to Web servers. By presenting specific profile information to Web servers, that information can be better tailored to a screen size and processing power. The CC/PP specification is built using the Resource Description Format (RDF), one of the foundations of the Semantic Web, a W3C initiative to provide more context for information delivered over the Web.
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