Future mobile devices will D.I.A.L. only the necessary
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The World Wide Web Consortium is a venerable old Lady that usually never moves ‘before’ but always ‘after’. After young stud start-ups and after red-neck big companies (hello Microsoft) that want to impose their own standards.
So if the W3C issues a first public draft on how to design web pages for mobile devices, it’s definitively meaning that the Internet decamps from the desktop computer.
And recently, that’s what the old Lady has done.
W3C Device Independent Authoring Language (DIAL) will be set as the natural language for websites on mobile phones, as the HTML has been playing this role for the traditional World Wide Web.
The DIAL is considered to minimize bandwidth consumption by only transmitting the essential depending on the media. For instance, only textual parts of a document would be transmitted to a cellphone if the device doesn’t present enough capabilities to display rich media data. Your cellphone won’t try to download the whole document and then consider it couldn’t play it.
Of course, as a new draft, the DIAL is contested by several software makers, just like Opera, which doesn’t find the language intuitive nor relevant compare to other existing W3C standards.
But besides those problems, from the Internet telephony point of view, we found that DIAL could improve the user experience. Imagine you want a video call, but haven’t realized yet your mobile phone cannot do it. Your conversation could still start but in voice mode. Nifty, would it be… what do you think?
May 23, 2006 | By Nuno
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