Re: Retiring the mobileOK checker

Agree that its time has passed, though some of the resources created in its construction still might be useful to someone, somewhere - so on the page suggested it might be an idea to link to those resources as well as linking to some more up to date resources (without implying endorsement, if necessary).

To raise a broader question: The validator does not exist in isolation, it’s an implementation of mobileOK. If the validator has served its time then so has mobileOK Basic Tests. i.e. it’s not that the validator has developed faults, it’s that what it was predicated upon is not as up to date as it could be.

mobileOK Basic Tests was based on Mobile Web Best Practices.

https://github.com/w3c-webmob/mobile_best_practices/issues/11 refers and has some links.

Thanks
Jo

On 4 Feb 2014, at 08:57, Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk> wrote:

> On 04/02/2014 08:53, Dominique Hazael-Massieux wrote:
>> This might also be of interest to some on this list — I'm suggesting to
>> retire the W3C mobileOK checker service (more below).
> 
>>> I am therefore suggesting that the current public mobileOK checker
>>> service [1] provided by W3C should be retired; my current plan is to
>>> post a notice to that effect on the checker home page for about a month,
>>> before pulling the plug.
> 
> Any chance the message could remain permanently? Or rather, that the live checker be replaced with a static page that shows just the notice itself, so that it doesn't just 404 after a month? Cool URL etc etc
>