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RE: test against Gmail

From: Ray Anderson <ray@bango.com>
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 16:45:43 +0000
Message-Id: <7.0.1.0.2.20061203164415.0497cbb0@bango.com>
To: "Luca Passani" <luca.passani@openwave.com>,<public-bpwg@w3.org>


The problem is that the checker does not seem to "pretend" to be a 
mobile device,
so "smart sites" - those that base output on device type will likely 
give bad results.

bango.net  is a similar example



>I was going to say that you should pass the URL for Gmail's XHTML
>interface to make sure you're checking the right page:
>
>http://validator.w3.org/mobile/?uri=http://mail.google.com/mail/x/
>
>... but I actually get the same result as from checking
>gmail.google.com. The checker is checking the desktop version of
>Gmail; for some reason Gmail is redirecting the checker's request to
>the non-mobile version in both cases. For example, there are many
>warnings about using script, but, the mobile web version of Gmail
>doesn't use script. I'll see if I can get to the bottom of that.

Ray Anderson   Chief Executive   Bango plc     Voice: +44 8700 340 
361   ray@bango.com
Received on Sunday, 3 December 2006 16:46:02 GMT

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