Mobile Web Test Suites Working Group Blog

We've made another small update to the Web Compatibility Test for Mobile Browsers (WCTMB). The canvas test has been made a bit more difficult, testing alpha transparency too:

function canvas() {
var c = document.getElementById("canvas");
var ctx = c.getContext("2d");
ctx.fillStyle = "rgb(0,128,0)";
ctx.fillRect(0, 0, 20, 20);
ctx.globalAlpha = 0; // any future drawing operations will be invisible
ctx.drawImage(document.getElementById('red.png'), 0, 0); // draw invisible red square over the green square
}

In England there are several shops on the high street which sell mobile devices such as:

• Handset manufacturers - Nokia, Sony, Apple
• Operators - Vodafone, O2, Orange, T-mobile
• Independent retailers like Carphone warehouse, Phones 4 U, Currys & like wise

Only recently I've noticed that some stores allow you to surf the Web on your devices, such as the Nokia flagship store in Regent street, London. Perhaps your local mobile shop now offers a similar service?

Where shops do not offer this facility, please take a moment to politely request Internet access in order to test the mobile's browser(s) on your favourite Web applications.

And what test could you use? Try the WCTMB test and please submit the results.

Be aware that some shops seem to operate odd policies when it comes to photographing the device.

There are many different mobile devices with many different features to choose from. Please make a good quality Web browser be one of them!

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"); });