[Commentor] LC-345 Dan Connolly [Comment] This draft is better than previous drafts in that it has an explicit "One Web" section. But the first best-practice guideline is still: "[CONTEXT] Take all reasonable steps to find out about the device/browser (client) capabilities, adaptation and other transformation that takes place for any instance of an access to a resource." -- link Guideline #1 should be: design for device-independence. Or something like that. In simple cases, one HTML document should work well across a variety of devices. But even for high-profile sites with dedicated production staff, where server-side content adaptation is worthwhile, designing for device independence is still a good idea; lots of content and navigation should be shared across devices. Ah... 5.2.4 Thematic Consistency of Resource Identified by a URI Much better. How about starting with that one? It's a bit of a mouthful, though. I don't see much justification for "... find out capabilities..." and I notice there's no "what to test" subsection for it. [Commentor reply] no reply from commenter [Working Group decision] 
Thematic Consistency has been moved as the first Best Practice in the latest draft. Design for device independence, does not have a specific mobile interpretation, it does not appear to be testable and it is hard to know what techniques one would cite to support it, unless it is the totality of the techniques that we suggest in support of the best practices. We've removed the [CONTEXT] Best Practices as it did not appear to fit well with the other best practices, and has been moved as a technique instead.