Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group News

Back in July, we published the first document describing the mobileOK mark. Since then, we worked very hard on refining tests and re-designing our levels separation, and the results of all this work is the publication as a separate document of mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0: it describes our current thinking on what the first level of mobileOK (thus now called "mobileOK Basic") should be, in other words, what we think any serious mobile web site should do to make their users' life happier (on the mobile web, at least).

This publication as a separate document doesn't mean we're abandoning work on the full mobileOK mark, which will include all the tests derived from Mobile Web Best Practices, but given the breadth of the work needed to define tests that are both useful, precise and well-targeted, we thought it more useful to focus on our first level first. Given that by design, all the tests in this level are machine-testable, we're also hoping it will be easier to write these tests, and easier to have them checked by quality tools, and thus, in the end, easier for content developers to pass them.

While we still have quite a bit of work to finish some of the tests and clarify existing ones, we're very much looking for feedback on the general direction, and especially to assess whether we're setting the bar too high or too low this basic level. Please send any feedback you would have on the document to public-bpwg-comments@w3.org!