- From: Rotan Hanrahan <Rotan.Hanrahan@MobileAware.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 11:09:29 +0100
- To: "Karl Dubost" <karl@w3.org>, <public-ddwg@w3.org>
To Karl and QA team, thank you. The DDWG [1] welcomes reviews from the W3C, other groups and the public, and will consider all comments in further revisions of the published documents. For the public who will be reading this exchange, the characteristic of the Landscape document [2] is one of review and observation, from which the group derives some technical recommendations as input to the group's central work: the Device Description Repository Requirements [3]. The Landscape document is therefore an exploration of an environment in which a yet-to-be-created technology would exist. As such, it was expected that the document would be "a little different" to other W3C Notes. If readers find the content to be useful, enlightening or educational, then the group will be pleased to have provided something of value to the community. Your feedback is always welcome. The Landscape document has already been used as input to the Requirements document, which (many should agree) is more like a traditional W3C (Working Group) Note. This is because the Requirements are intended to be a concise technical description of what the group agrees is needed within the Landscape previously described. All DDWG documents are in review, and the group hopes to to issue updates or final versions for most of these, prior to the workshop [4]. [1] http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/DDWG/ [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-dd-landscape-20060210/ [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-DDR-requirements-20060410/ [4] http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/DDWG/workshop2006/ -----Original Message----- From: public-ddwg-request@w3.org [mailto:public-ddwg-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Karl Dubost Sent: 18 May 2006 04:58 To: public-ddwg@w3.org Subject: comment: Device Description Landscape - Introduction Hi, This is a QA Review comment for "Device Description Landscape" http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-dd-landscape-20060210/ Thu, 09 Feb 2006 14:37:27 GMT 1st WD [[[ 1 Introduction Web access from mobile devices suffers from problems that make the Web unattractive for most mobile users. W3C's Mobile Web Initiative (MWI) proposes to address these issues through a concerted effort of key players in the mobile value chain, including authoring tool vendors, content providers, handset manufacturers, browser vendors and mobile operators. The objective of the W3C Mobile Web Initiative is to enable access to the Web from mobile devices. It is recognized that this will generally require adaptation of web content and therefore an understanding of the different characteristics, features, behaviors and limitations of mobile handsets. Within the MWI, the mission of the Device Description Working Group (DDWG) is to foster the provision of, and access to, these consistent and reliable, Device Descriptions that can be used to help develop and deliver high-quality mobile web applications to the world's mobile devices. ]]] -- Device Description Landscape http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-dd-landscape-20060210/#sec-objectivescope Thu, 09 Feb 2006 14:37:27 GMT Editorial: The introduction of a specification is used to give context about the technology itself and not that much about the group which has done it. We suggest to remove everything which is related to Mobile Web Initiative and or Device Descriptiong Working Group when not related to the technology itself. Many things in this section seems to belong to the Status section, more than an introduction. The whole document seems a bit strange, as it looks like more a white paper than a usual W3C Note. -- Karl Dubost - http://www.w3.org/People/karl/ W3C Conformance Manager, QA Activity Lead QA Weblog - http://www.w3.org/QA/ *** Be Strict To Be Cool ***
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