Thu 1 Jan 2009
January 1, 2009 – The W3C’s new mobileOK checker performs various tests on a Web page to determine how mobile-friendly a web page is.
The World Wide Web Consortium has launched MobileOK checker, an open source project, supported by the Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group, which includes leaders from the mobile industry and Mobile Web Initiative sponsors. to promote the development of mobile-friendly Web content.
One of the thing’s we’re planning to do on the Hobo site in 2009 is make the website suitable for mobile phones, and this tool will undoubtedly help. At the moment, this website needs improvements when we tested it here at W3C mobileOK Checker.
The linked resource format may not be appropriate for mobile devices
The mobileOK Basic tests are based on the part of the Mobile Web Best Practices that can be verified automatically with software, W3C officials stated.
“The new checker builds on the suite of quality assurance tools offered by W3C to help authors and authoring tool developers create clean content,” said Tim Berners-Lee, W3C’s director, in a statement. “Clean content offers a number of benefits to authors and users alike. The mobileOK checker does a nice job helping you improve your content one step at a time. Your mobile audience will thank you each time you improve your score.”
A W3C mobileOK implementation report indicates that there are already several mobileOK sites, including Google and Wikipedia.
We’ll probably look to implement the Wordpress mobile plugin at some point in the near future.
- Article by Shaun Anderson
- Published January 1, 2009
