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Web Compatibility Test for Mobile Browsers
Type of site
Web standards test
OwnerThe World Wide Web Consortium
Created byDominique Hazael-Massieux, Wilhelm Joys Andersen, Kai Hendry
URLwww.w3.org/2008/06/mobile-test/
Commercialno
Registrationnone
Launched16 April 2008
Current statusonline

Web Compatibility Test for Mobile Browsers (often Mobile Acid test[1]) is a test page published and promoted by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to expose web page rendering flaws in mobile web browsers and other applications that render HTML. It was developed in the spirit of the Acid test by the Web Standards Project and test the relevant parts that mobile browser need to support. The test uses for some parts JavaScript to test the different technologies. The browser have to accomplish 16 different subtest indicated by a 4 X 4 raster of squares.

Overview of standards tested

The mobile Acid test tests a variety of web standards published by the World Wide Web Consortium and the Internet Engineering Task Force. Specifically, the mobile Acid test tests:[2]

  • Subtest 1. CSS2 min-width
  • Subtest 2. Transparent PNG
  • Subtest 3. gzip support: A method for compression the transferred web page. It is part of the http 1.1 specification.
  • Subtest 4. HTTPS: A method to broadcast the web page in a secure way.
  • Subtest 5. Cookies support: The web page is able to store data in small text files on the mobile.
  • Subtest 6. iframe including of XHTML-served-as-XML content
  • Subtest 7. XMLHttpRequest
  • Subtest 8. Static SVG (gzipped)
  • Subtest 9. CSS Media Queries
  • Subtest 10. JavaScript framework
  • Subtest 11. Dynamic SVG
  • Subtest 12. IRIs and IDN
  • Subtest 13. DOM 'mutation' events
  • Subtest 14. The canvas element
  • Subtest 15. contenteditable
  • Subtest 16. CSS3 selectors

See also

References

  1. ^ Hazael-Massieux, Dominique (13 March 2008). "Renaming Mobile Acid Test". World Wide Web Consortium. Retrieved 12 April 2009.
  2. ^ "Web Compatibility Test for Mobile Browsers". The World Wide Web Consortium. Retrieved 12 April 2009.
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