There aren't many tracks of my online activity since there is not much of it due to my busyness – but some still exist. Surprisingly found today that my old comment at MWI Team Blog is still alive:
http://www.w3.org/blog/MWITeam/2008/05/10/mobile_web_initiative_what_s_next
Nothing changed much since time of that comment as for its matter. Despite an effort of the W3C and other authorities, a fragmentation of devices and solutions has even been increased. Google´s Android is a rapidly growing platform that is intended to a large variety of devices, not to (smart)phones only. Microsoft as it seems does not recognise that desktop OS is not intended to tiny devices while their Windows Mobile 7 is far not revolutional. Browsers war continues (there is not any single browser exists at these days that can work properly with a content of 100% sites), and HTML 5 will not have a strong affect on it (since this is not the only technology used for web site development). Even more, in order to solve all the known problems (including those described here) it will require an effort from all the Web stakeholders and coordinated or "followed to the same direction" innovations in Web architecture and device development.
Many new interesting documents released by W3C groups as for the matter (just look above on the same page, then visit Incubator Activity and check deliverables of those groups). A special interest is a result of work of the Device APIs and Policy Working Group, the Semantic Sensor Network Incubator Group, and also the Geolocation Working Group.
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