RE: Questions from future content creator

Hello Moca,
 
Very briefly, testing is the only guarantee. If you have good device
knowledge (i.e. tests of generic cases have been conducted and results
recorded) then you may be able to reduce some of the testing by adhering
to the device knowledge you have. The bad news is that to be sure of the
highest quality on the widest range of devices, you will probably need a
good adaptation solution that has all this device knowledge built-in.
 
The DIWG has produced several documents related to DI, but you do not
identify which one you refer to as "great". Nevertheless, on behalf of
the group, thank you.
 
You can try to limit the content to features that are known to pose
fewer problems. The W3C MWI Best Practices group has much to say on the
matter of producing content that will work on a broad range. Of course,
imposing such limitations may reduce the perceived quality of the
presentations, especially for end-users who expect exciting colourful
interaction.
 
The media types covered in W3C documents tend to favour those that are
associated with recommended W3C technologies. Proprietary technologies
are acknowledge but are not the focus of discussions or examples. Media
type that are not supported by the majority of browsers except via
proprietary plug-ins (free or otherwise) tend to be omitted from our
documentation.
 
I cannot speak on behalf of the group with respect to an opinion on a
particular proprietary technology, but I believe that we understand that
such technolgies have a role to play, especially in niche domains.
However, where possible, technolgies that have the widest
"out-of-the-box" support should be favoured.
 
There are a number of vendors of specialised solutions to multi-device
Web content, some of whom are represented in DIWG. I suggest you survey
the documentation that they offer on-line to educate yourself on what is
possible and practical. If you are looking for low-cost solutions
(without the "wow" factor of the professionals) then the open source
community has a few simple solutions to offer.
 
---Rotan Hanrahan (DI, and chair of DD)
 

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From: www-di-request@w3.org [mailto:www-di-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of
Moca
Sent: 18 July 2006 09:07
To: www-di@w3.org
Subject: Questions from future content creator


Hello,

I'm Moca and before anything I apologize if this is not the sort of
question to post here and/or my ignorance on the topic.

I am a web designer starting to read on developing content for devices
and came across your great document on DI. 

It would be great if you could expand on ideas for testing... even if we
followed a structure when creating content, nothing really guarantees it
will look or function the same across devices until you test it. Testing
only on targeted devices or ones you can afford to me defeats the
purpose of trying to create content that can be accessed across any
device if you can never test it... it seems like an impossible
challenge.

In the document, you mentioned many different media types but did not
include Flash content as one. I am very curious to know the group's
position in relation to Flash Lite content.

Thanks a lot, 
Moca 
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