Surfing the Web on a mobile device, often a frustrating experience, might become a little easier thanks to a new set of standards approved by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).The new set of rules and guidelines for how Web sites should work and be viewed on portable devices are called, collectively, “Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0.”

The standards offer instructions for creating the best user experience for accessing the Web from such devices as cell phones, smartphones, or PDAs.

They include recommendations on such things as screen width, file size, navigation, and URL names. They also offer guidance on avoiding such mobile Web sandtraps as page-scrolling and pop-ups.

Thirty organizations participating in the Mobile Web Initiative achieved consensus and encourage adoption and implementation of these guidelines to improve user experience and to achieve the goal of  ”One Web.”

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