The “Mobile Web Test Suites Working Group“, a W3C group whose goal is to provide test suites for mobile Web technologies just recently announced the launch of its “Web Compatibility Test for Mobile Browsers”.

In the same spirit as the well known ACID tests for desktop Web browsers, the Web Compatibility Test for Mobile Browsers (no, they couldn’t find a better name :)) allows to test 12 Web technologies “ranging from well-deployed (but often poorly implemented on mobile devices) technologies such as HTTPS and PNG, to technologies we believe will matter in a year or two (like SVG animation and CSS Media Queries).”

To perform the test, you need to point your mobile web browser to this URI: http://dev.w3.org/2008/mobile-test/test.html or this one (shorter): http://tinyurl.com/37e33p

Each technology is represented by a square, if the technology is supported, the square will be green.

Test of Opera Mini 4.1

As more and more people go online from their mobile devices, this test will help decide if the browsers installed on their phones can provide them with the most enjoyable experience.

That’s really a nice move from the W3C. More information here .