Mobile Web Test Suites Working Group Blog

As the inputmode attribute has been dropped from the current draft of the HTML5 spec, we have now replaced the inputmode part of the Web Compatibility Test for Mobile browsers. In its place you will now find a new JavaScript framework test.

Modern web sites and web applications are becoming increasingly complex, often relying on large client-side scripts. A few different JavaScript frameworks aiming to ease the life of script authors have become very popular in recent years, and is today deployed on countless sites.

Any mobile browser that intends to make full use of said sites and applications must be able to load and use these libraries. Our new tests consists of loading the library of jQuery and the executing the simplest possible test using this library:

$(document).ready(function() { $("#jquery").addClass("green"); });

While the Mobile Web Test Suites Working Group has documented the technologies used in the Web Compatibility Test for Mobile Browsers for quite some time, I have always felt we could give more details on the said technologies and their state of development in a more graphical overview of the test.

To that end, I have developed the following graphic, that relates each of the square of the test to a given technology, with its dates of development and its state of standardization:

(also available as SVG, with links to the relevant specifications)

In the Core department at Opera Software we are constantly working on improving the testing of our browser engine, aiming to automate as much as possible. Recently we have been working on finishing the the last piece of the puzzle - automating tests that require some sort of user interaction.

Read more at the Core Concerns blog.