Posted by andymoo 5 years 14 weeks ago
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Can anyone point me in the right direction please or offer any tips on passing the links section of the validation.
I've modified the WURLF wp-mobile.php script to pass 24 of the 25 points, the only thing stopping it being all 25 is the way I have the links set out.
Just thought I'd ask before I lost a couple of hours of my life Googling!
The URL I'm testing is andymoore.info/wp-mobile.php
Posted by andymoo 5 years ago
Well it looks like there's no need to bother with my original question any more, instead the mobile ready test seems to have other pointless elements to the validator.
Google sitemap - this is unrelated to mobile. If you have one bully for you, if not I don't understand why it should earn a comment on the validator tool. After all SEO is SEO, mobile is mobile and for the purpose of the validator I don't think the maps is something that needs to be covered. What's next Google pagerank and Alexa tools?
Yes, Google do mobile sitemaps but it doesn't mean it will bring you traffic, it's just a way of asking Google to crawl pages, it doesn't mean you'll be listed in the search results. An accessible site with logical navigational structure and loads of relevant inbound links will do you more favours than a Google sitemap will.
Form inputs with default text - default text values mean the user has to replace stuff on a mobile which isn't much fun when ease of use is limited on the keypad. I'd understand if we could use an onchange event to replace the default form input but we can't so this rule / comment is actually making it harder for the user than it needs to be.
As for inline style sheets, Mobi guidelines say no, GAP says yes. I'm going with GAP on this one, having your stylesheet as an external file means an extra HTTP request that's uncalled for. I'm all for separating logic from presentation but on the handset I feels it's better to have the style inline to minimise the requests going on in the background.
Final moan, as much as the screenshots are funky looking and pretty handy they can take ages to load and are not really needed as part of the validator when links to the emulator with different handsets would be better.
/moan ends
Just so you don't think I'm being totally negative I've got to add I like the ability to hyperlink into reports for a site b passing get values. That's sweet and a much needed addition! Well done.
Andy Moore
dotMobi Certified Mobile Web Developer
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Posted by roland 5 years ago
Hi Andy,
I agree with your comment about inline styles and default text.
I have the same problem with some of my pages - in my opinion the checker isn't finished yet.
On a public W3 mailing list is a discussion about the mobileOK checker: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-mobileok-checker/2007Jan/0001.html
roland