RE: Initial comments on the mobileOK Basic checker

Hi Steve

Thanks for your comments. Just quickly to note that the UI you are using is out of scope of the activity of the checker task force whose work is limited to producing the underlying api. The UI you see has been put together by Dom who I am sure will be pleased to act on your suggestions :-)

I think that the "how to fix" idea is a really good one, in fact so good we have a set of these notes relating to the output of http://ready.mobi - see for example http://dev.mobi/?q=node/209 on cache-control headers. As you note, putting this information together is quite time-consuming and is not planned as a working group activity.

Jo



> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-mobileok-checker-request@w3.org [mailto:public-mobileok-
> checker-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Steve Bratt
> Sent: 13 November 2007 19:30
> To: public-mobileok-checker@w3.org
> Cc: Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
> Subject: Initial comments on the mobileOK Basic checker
> 
> 
> Dear Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group,
> 
> Congratulations on launching the alpha version of the mobileOK Basic
> checker.  This is going to be very helpful for those working on mobile-
> friendly Web sites.
> 
> Here are some comments following preliminary, personal testing:
> 
> * Provide link near top of page to the mailing list to which users should
> send feedback on the checker
> 
> * Provide links from error messages to text from MWBP and mobileOK docs.
> Currently, output text such as "(per
> CONTENT_FORMAT_SUPPORT_AND_VALID_MARKUP)"  does not link to anyplace.
> Until you can do this, at least make it clear where the user can find this
> text and explanation... For example, say something like, "the error
> message below give text references / links to the ABCD document (is it the
> MWBP or the W3C mobileOK Basic document?).
> 
> * Very helpful for developers... Provide links from error messages to as
> much information as possible to help the user fix the error.  I appreciate
> that it may take time to develop a set of such concrete recommendations
> and examples.  Perhaps you could ask the users to submit their own idea
> via mail lists, wikis, etc.
> 
> * Provide a link near top of the page, especially after a checking has
> completed, that says something like "Check new site?", which takes you to
> the URI input field (now at the bottom of what might be a long page of
> errors :)
> 
> 
> Keep up the great work.
> 
> Steve
> 
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