The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has released the alpha version of new software, mobileOK, which it says will make it easier to create and locate Internet content that is suitable for mobile handheld devices.
“Making a Web site work on a mobile device is easier once you have the right tool,” said Dominique Hazaël-Massieux, Leaders of W3C's Mobile Web Initiative. “Now is the time to reach more people by making your site W3C mobileOK.”
The father of the Internet, Tim Berners-Lee, outlined how mobileOK fits into the W3C Mobile Web at the Mobile Internet World meeting in Boston Mass, yesterday.
mobileOK checker runs the tests defined in the W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0 to reduce the cost of authoring and improve the mobile browsing experience. Any tool that implements the Basic Tests can verify automatically whether content is mobile friendly.
One incentive to conform to mobileOK is that it is being picked up by search engines including Google, to tailor results for the mobile environment.
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