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Appendix A. Further Reading

Partly because its technologies and principles are so fast moving, and partly because its ecosystem is so varied and complex, a full discussion of the many aspects of the mobile web can never be fully articulated in a single book. You should undoubtedly stay abreast of other contemporary publications on the topic, as well as the many standards, best practices, and other documents that relate to the mobile web. Here is a non-exhaustive list of some important further reading. (Appendix B also provides links to online resources, such as blogs and community sites, that you should also subscribe to.)

STANDARDS

The heart of any technological topic should be the industry standards that describe the philosophies, protocols, languages, and interoperability principles. Being a medium born of both the telecoms industry and the Internet industry, the mobile web relies on a broad range of underlying standards. A mobile web developer is not expected to read every document from cover to cover, but knowing which standards are relevant to your work, and where you can turn for definitive answers to how things should work can be very useful. Here we list some of the major standards and recommendations that will affect your work.

Web Markup

Once relying on an essentially orthogonal set of protocols and technologies, the mobile web is now firmly rooted on the same collection of standards as the "regular" desktop web. Devices render pages described with HTML- and XML-based "syntax," ...