Mobile web browsing steps closer to reality as OMTP sponsors W3C Mobile Web Initiative
Written by OMTP
Monday, 10 August 2009
London
10th August 2009:
Today, OMTP announced that it has become a
sponsor of the W3C Mobile Web Initiative
(MWI), to further
bolster the joint goal of making browsing the web from mobile devices a reality.
OMTP, the organisation behind the hugely successful BONDI initiative, will
use this sponsorship to drive standards and best practice which will ultimately
enable users of mobile devices to have the easiest and best possible access to
the immense services and applications available via the World Wide
Web.
The W3C
Mobile Web Initiative is an activity which actively promotes the mobile Web.It
works to provide best practices and recommendations to the industry to enable a
better mobile web experience. OMTP believes in a consistent mobile web
environment which is enabled through W3C standardisation.
Over the past
few years, there has been massive innovation in the development of web services
and applications available to users of PCs. Combining these advances with the
personal features of the mobile device will stimulate even better and more
unique services to a mass market of mobile phone users – which greatly
outnumbers the number of PC users. The enabling of services which can be
accessed by a large proportion of the world’s mobile phone users will, not only,
stimulate new development and increase the number of developers but will also
provide unseen levels of new types of services. Whether for millions of users or
just for a small community, a web application or widget will provide the easiest
way of developing a new service.
The OMTP
BONDI initiative, which provides a standardised set of interfaces for web
developers to access native capabilities on mobile devices, is essential in
providing the consistency necessary to enable this vision. BONDI also provides
the security features which will be essential in protecting the user from
potential abuse from malicious web applications.
“The W3C
boasts the support and credibility to standardise the technologies required to
best enable mobile web browsing in the future,” said Tim Raby, CEO OMTP. “We are
very happy to be sponsoring the Mobile Web Initiative. The industry is looking
forward to seeing huge improvements in the mobile web experience over the coming
years.”
"We welcome OMTP's
sponsorship of W3C's Mobile Web Initiative," said Philipp Hoschka, W3C
Ubiquitous Web Domain Lead. "Sponsorship and active participation from OMTP will
help promote the mission of One Web and greatly assist in improving the mobile
Web to the overall benefit of the end user."
About OMTP
OMTP is a forum funded by companies
from across the mobile phone value chain, set up with the aim of gathering and
driving mobile terminal requirements to ensure consistent and secure
implementations, thereby reducing fragmentation and simplifying the customer
experience of mobile data services across mobile terminals. OMTP is backed by
many of the largest mobile operators and has members from hardware and software
vendors across the value chain. For more information, visit http://www.omtp.org.
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