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Practical experiences with device independent authoring concepts
Oskari Koskimies, Michael Wasmund, Peter Wolkerstorfer, Thomas Ziegert
Abstract
The development of web applications for mobile and other non-desktop devices using established methods
often requires a tremendous development effort. A major challenge therefore is to find sound approaches
enabling the cost efficient application development for multiple devices of varying technical characteristics.
Newer approaches are based on a device independent mark up language, which is then adapted to meet the
special characteristics of the accessing device. This paper describes our approach to single authoring,
which was developed in a large European research project1. The CONSENSUS project has developed a
device-independent language profile based on XHTML 2.0 and XFORMS 1.0 and implemented a compliant
rendering engine. In this paper we will describe our approach to enable single authoring and summarise
the lessons we have learnt.
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