- From: Tom Hume <tom.hume@futureplatforms.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 11:26:08 +0100
- To: Luca Passani <passani@eunet.no>
- Cc: Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group WG <public-bpwg@w3.org>
OK, I've explained why I voted against this one. I'll do it once more and leave you to it. The MobileOptimized META attribute isn't an indication that a page is generally mobile-aware, it's a hint to a specific browser to say "don't apply your normal layout rules to this page"; I think there's a difference, you're free to disagree of course. Formatting a page for mobile IE doesn't mean that it's suitable for consumption on other mobile devices. There are other mechanisms that a content provider can use to say "don't transform me" if they want to. Unless it's extremely prevalent in the real world - which I've not seen evidence that this is - I don't believe that mandating respect for a single vendors proprietary mechanisms is appropriate. -- Future Platforms: hungry and foolish since 2000 work: Tom.Hume@futureplatforms.com play: tomhume.org
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