RE: comment: Device Description Landscape - Introduction

 
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/


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Sent: 18 May 2006 04:58
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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
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