RE: test against Gmail

I was referring to a different validator. One that does pretend to be a mobile device...the mark-up used by google mail is not well formed and there are other issues as far as google goes (as far as it's respect of W3C BP is concerned).
 
For the record, I am not saying GMail is bad. In fact, it is good. The problem is BP. I don't think BP as it is is good for developers, for the industry or for anyone else.
 
Luca

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From: Ray Anderson [mailto:ray@bango.com]
Sent: Sun 12/3/2006 16:45
To: Luca Passani; public-bpwg@w3.org
Subject: 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.

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