RE: test against Gmail

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 UTC