Introduction
I believe in the W3C's principle of One Web—that services and information on the web should be thematically consistent and accessible to all kinds of devices, without regard to differences in presentation capabilities. Informally, the One Web principle means that if I write my grocery list online at home in Firefox, I should be able to view the list and check off my purchases at the grocery store using my mobile phone. That said, the Mobile Web and its ecosystem are unique in many ways—in access patterns, user behaviors, browser technologies, and client capabilities.
A recent mobiThinking report coined the maxim "utility is the engine of the Mobile Web". This phrase has become my mantra for Mobile Web development and I encourage you ...
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