Volantis, a leading supplier of Intelligent Content Adaptation solutions and services for the mobile Internet, has announced its participation in the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) new 'Mobile Web Initiative' (MWI), a proposal that aims to make Internet access from a mobile device as simple, easy and convenient as access from a desktop. Although many of today's mobile devices already feature Web browsers and the demand for mobile devices continues to grow, using the Web, from a mobile device for example to find product information, consult timetables, check email, transfer money, is not as convenient as expected. Users often find that their favorite Web sites are not accessible or not as easy to use on their mobile phone as on their desktop computer. Also, content providers are facing difficulties in building Web sites that work sufficiently well across all device types and configurations of mobile phones with Web access.

W3C has launched the Mobile Web Initiative to make browsing the Web from mobile devices a reality. The MWI will initially focus on two areas: best practices and mobile device descriptions. The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group is chartered to develop authoring guidelines, checklists and best practices to help content providers to develop web content that works well on mobile devices. The Device Description Working Group is chartered to address the development of improved device description solutions, in the form of a database of descriptions that can be used by content authors to adapt their content to a particular device.
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