Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group News

The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group is proud to announce that W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0 was published today as a W3C Recommendation!

Publication as a W3C Recommendation means that mobileOK tests joined the Mobile Web Best Practices in the growing family of Mobile Web standards.

The mobileOK mark was developed to provide a simple way for Web content authors to assess and improve the level of mobile-friendliness of their content. Content authors are not expected to use the W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0 specification directly, but rather to use checkers and authoring tools that conform to the specification.

As a reference implementation of the specification, the Checker task force of the working group developed an open-source mobileOK Checker Java library that may be used to test whether a Web page is mobileOK. The library was released as a stable version 1.0.

More user-friendly online checker tools, developed by members of the working group are already available:

• The W3C mobileOK Checker, developed by the W3C, is a wrapper around the Java library
• ready.mobi, developed by dotMobi, evaluates mobile-readiness using industry best practices & standards
• The TAW mobileOK checker, developed by Fundación CTIC, checks mobileOK conformance

The implementation report of the W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0 specification also lists a few tools that are known to generate mobileOK content.

Content authors are strongly encouraged to use such tools and help the Web go mobile!