This morning Sean Owen from Google announced an alpha release of the W3C mobileOK Basic Tests reference checker. Ruadhan and I have contributed to this open source effort to provide a baseline testing infrastructure. A lot of work has gone into producing it and while it’s not complete, or bug free, it’s great to see this work taking its next step.
The mobileOK Basic test suite is itself set to take its next step – to “Candidate Recommendation”. Our version of the checker, ready.mobi is well-known to most of you, and though not based on the reference code at the moment, tracks the mobileOK tests closely, as well as providing significant value-add on top of those tests.
If you’re interested in this work, check out the mobileOK checker task force home page and the CVS repository which contains the alpha jar file and user manuals.
