Posted by ronan 5 years 8 weeks ago
ronan
Mobile Guru
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Your ready.mobi site checker seems to be giving inaccurate results.
I’ve inputted simple mobile sites which we know work fine across the majority of browsers, http://mopeeps.com for instance, but your site checker gives a ‘bad’ rating, saying it will display poorly. So basically we don’t trust your results.
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Posted by admin 5 years ago
Looking at the ready.mobi score for this site, it scores poorly for 2 main reasons:
1) The markup isn't validating. The problems are all fairly minor (the "border" tag is not allowed in XHTML-MP). While I agree that this page does indeed render fine on some phones, there are plenty of phones out there that will trip up on even the slightest problem with the XHTML. Some phones (my T610 comes to mind) will simply not show anything at all if the page does not validate according to the DTD. This is why we are so strict on this particular test. Yes, the browsers are getting better and better, but there are still countless millions (billions?) of phones out there that will not accept malformed XHTML
2) It looks like you have found a bug in ready.mobi -- we are double counting some of the images in the page. I think that we introduced this bug in the version that we uploaded a couple of days ago. Once we fix this (in the next day or 2) I think your score will improve a lot, because the page size contributes significantly to the score. You have raised a another legitimate point here - the text in our result states that "It will probably display very poorly on a mobile phone. " where it should really say "It will probably be a poor experience on a mobile phone. " because the page size does not affect the actual display -- it affects the experience.