Luca Passani has created an amzaing piece of guidelines for Mobile web developers and content authors who are searching for directions to help create sites for the mobile web.
While this document clearly appreciates that mobile web development poses extra challenges to authors (as compared to the traditional WWW) and encourages developers to explore techniques to deliver content in context-sensitive manners (adaptation), the objective of the document is to explain how to get the best user-experience out of a (potentially static) XHTML-MP 1.0 page.
This one-size-fits-all approach is sometimes referred to as Least Common Denominator (LCD). While content adaptation is more likely to provide a better user-experience than LCD, it is recognized that some developers/authors may not be using adaptation for a variety of reasons.
This document is a guide about how to get the most out of single non-dinamically generated XHTML MP pages and, at the same time, it educates developers about common pitfalls in the design of mobile services.
Link: Global Authoring Practices for the Mobile Web
Source: Luca Passani
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For additional mobile-focussed design guidelines (more or less aligned with both the W3C Best Practices and Luca’s GAP work), we’ve recently produced the “Mobile Web Developer’s Guide” which can be found at http://pc.dev.mobi/?q=node/197
There’s a lot of debate over which set of guidelines is best, but in fact the differences in terms of the actual recommentations are not as large as they may seem.
Like theologians who wisely understand other religions than there own, it’s a good idea for developers to be appraised of the ideas in all of them.
See also http://w3c.org/mobile and http://ready.mobi