RE: test against Gmail

• From: Jo Rabin <jo@linguafranca.org>
• Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 09:15:24 -0000
• To: <public-bpwg@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <002c01c71784$bbe18730$8200a8c0@Linguafrancam2>

> So you could argue that it is inappropriate to test Gmail using the
> checker since it does so much more than just mobile support. The checker
> tells you if you are mobileONLY.
>

>From mobileOK Basic: "mobileOK says nothing about what may be delivered to
non-mobile devices from that URI; however, note that a mobileOK URI must
return mobileOK content by default if the nature of the user agent cannot
reliably be determined".

So I don't think the above is correct. I think the checker checks that in
certain circumstances a site provides a mobileOK experience. I don't see
that its results are valid only if a site provides _only_ a mobile
experience.

Jo

Received on Monday, 4 December 2006 09:15:41 UTC