Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group News

The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has just released a first draft of its mobileOK document; mobileOK aims at defining a labeling system for Web content to help identify pages that were built with mobile devices in mind.

mobileOK is directly built upon the Mobile Web Best Practices: to be mobileOK, a page needs to pass a well-defined subset of the Best Practices, as assessed through a refinement of the tests developed as part of the Best Practices.

Beyond this, mobileOK is expected to use the outcome of the Web Content Label Incubator Group as a basis for building and publishing conformance claims, making it a sound basis for a a number of usage scenarios, from content certification to search engine filtering .

While this document is a very much an early draft, the Working Group is interested to get feedback on some of the issues identified in the document, in particular:

• on the choice of Best Practices belonging to the level 1 and level 2 of mobileOK
• on the inclusion of the Thematic Consistency Best Practices as part of mobileOK

Comments on the general direction of mobileOK are also very much welcome!