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Searching for a new mobile Web test — 2 February 2009
In the last few months the Mobile Web Test Suites Working Group have been not secretly meeting every Tuesday, discussing, among other things, an update to the Web Compatibility Test for Mobile Browsers. As the inputmode attribute is no longer part of the HTML5 specification, we need to replace our test on this with something else..
The last couple of months we have been investigating a replacement test around HTTPS/SSL and perhaps the Online Certificate Status Protocol. Different mobile devices can have different SSL trust roots installed (which often aren't viewable) and this security fragmentation could lead to a poor user experience. Or worse, Web developers fear to use SSL at all for this very reason.
SSL has always been a complex area and the current participants of this workgroup are not necessarily experts in the area. Perhaps you dear reader are? That didn't stop Opera's Wilhelm shooting SSL a parting shot with:
So we are still looking for a new test for the famous Web Compatibility Test for Mobile Browsers. Currently we have proposals to look into:SSL is not establishing a hierarchy of trust, but a hierarchy of whom to blame.
- Timers
- MathML via CSS
- A Javascript test from a well known framework
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