- From: Chevrollier, N.G. (Nicolas) <nicolas.chevrollier@tno.nl>
- Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 15:37:27 +0200
- To: "Prashanth" <prashanth@akmin.com>, "Stephane Boyera" <boyera@w3.org>, <public-mw4d@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <7877C5C0B5CC894AB26113CF06CF8863036F686C@ms-dt01thalia.tsn.tno.nl>
Just thinking out loud. Is this an issue in other language(s) outside India? Best, Nicolas -------------------------------------------- Dr Nicolas Chevrollier TNO Information and Communication Technology Room BA 206 Brassersplein 2, 2612 CT Delft, Tel: +31 15 285 73 54 mob: +31 62 247 24 96, Twitter: nchevrollier http://bopimpact.nl ------------------------------------------- > -----Original Message----- > From: public-mw4d-request@w3.org [mailto:public-mw4d-request@w3.org] On > Behalf Of Prashanth > Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 4:43 AM > To: Stephane Boyera; public-mw4d@w3.org > Subject: Re: After Access - Challenges Facing Mobile-OnlyInternet Users in > the Developing World > > As far as India is concerned the biggest issue is rendering of local > language fonts in the mobile browsers. Note that I am not even pointing > to user having to key in text in local languages, but very unfortunately > the Indian fonts do not even get displayed in the mobile browser. > Today we have over 80,000 mobile websites created using our tool > www.mobisitegalore.com and over 50% come from India, but there is no way > that they can created a mobile website in Hindi or Tamil because the > fonts would just not render in the mobile browser. > This is an important missing link as most people in India cannot read > English. > > Warm regards > S.Prashanth > CEO > www.akmin.com > > > > On 05-Jul-2010 5:17 PM, Stephane Boyera wrote: > > Dear All, > > i want to share with you a very good paper from S. Gitau, J. Donner > > and G. Marsden. > > The paper is attached > > References are: > > Gitau, Shikoh, Marsden, Gary, & Donner, Jonathan. (2010). After access > > - Challenges facing mobile-only internet users in the developing > > world. Proceedings of the 28th international conference on human > > factors in computing systems (CHI 2010) (pp. 2603-2606). New York: ACM. > > > > One of the first papers i see focusing on the barriers of using mobile > > web in developing countries by people without PC access and experience. > > Some good suggestions for operators and other players. > > > > Steph > This e-mail and its contents are subject to the DISCLAIMER at http://www.tno.nl/disclaimer/email.html
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