Mobile/Open Web: Difference between revisions

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:we want to promote the Open Mobile Web and not only a Gecko-Webkit mobile web. Our message should (and will) reflect this. Other mobile browser vendors have the same problems (Opera, Microsoft, ...). Can we work together?
:we want to promote the Open Mobile Web and not only a Gecko-Webkit mobile web. Our message should (and will) reflect this. Other mobile browser vendors have the same problems (Opera, Microsoft, ...). Can we work together?


== Evangelism: Web Developers and their managers ("Stop the bleeding") ==
== Evangelize Web developers and their managers ("Stop the bleeding") ==
Web Developers must get accurate information about how to do a mobile web site that works on every browsers:
Web Developers must get accurate information about how to do a mobile web site that works on every browsers:
;we need good practices
;We need good practices
:There are no ultimate good practice. We need to be pragmatics:
:There are no ultimate good practice. We need to be pragmatics:
* How to do proper UA sniffing for mobile sites?
* How to do proper UA sniffing for mobile sites?
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*we need big coordinated campaigns between vendors(?) (to reach Web dev that are not reading blogs, going to events, ...)
*we need big coordinated campaigns between vendors(?) (to reach Web dev that are not reading blogs, going to events, ...)


;Managers
;Web devs have managers
: we should turn them into our allies. We should craft messages to convince the managers that asking for sites for 'iPhone' only is a lost of money (they could ask for all devices for the same amount of money)
: ... and we should turn them into our allies. We should craft messages to convince the managers that asking for sites for 'iPhone' only is a lost of money (they could ask for all devices for the same amount of money)
 
== Tools ==
== Tools ==
Provide tools and functionality that help authors find incompatibilities earlier ("Web Devs will take the easier path"):
Provide tools and functionality that help authors find incompatibilities earlier ("Web Devs will take the easier path"):
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