Re: Re: please reivew mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0

 Dear Simon Pieters ,

The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has reviewed the comments you
sent [1] on the Last Call Working Draft [2] of the W3C mobileOK Basic
Tests 1.0 (2nd Last Call) published on 25 May 2007. Thank you for having
taken the time to review the document and to send us comments!

The Working Group's response to your comment is included below, and has
been implemented in the new version of the document available at:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-mobileOK-basic10-tests-20070928/.

Please review it carefully and let us know if you agree with it or not
before 19 October 2007. In case of disagreement, you are requested to
provide a specific solution for or a path to a consensus with the Working
Group. If such a consensus cannot be achieved, you will be given the
opportunity to raise a formal objection which will then be reviewed by the
Director during the transition of this document to the next stage in the
W3C Recommendation Track.

Thanks,

For the Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group,
Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
Michael(tm) Smith
W3C Staff Contacts

 1. http://www.w3.org/mid/op.ttrt3deq7a8kvn@hp-a0a83fcd39d2
 2. http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-mobileOK-basic10-tests-20070525/


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Your comment on the document as a whole:
> The tests require XHTML. What is the rationale for this? My research[1] 
> 
> shows that all tested mobile browsers support HTML, and also that many 
> 
> treat application/xhtml+xml as if it were text/html (i.e., they don't
> use  
> XML parsers). Therefore, for compatibility with existing mobile
> browsers,  
> the guideline for authors should be to use HTML, or if they use XHTML
> to  
> follow appendix C of XHTML 1.0 (even when using application/xhtml+xml).


Working Group Resolution:
Most mobile browsers do not support everything HTML defines. Our
experience is that XHTML Basic delivered with application/xhtml+xml is
more likely to result in a functional user experience than other
combinations.

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Received on Thursday, 4 October 2007 15:27:47 UTC