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As I understand it, the tests suggest that authors use a separate version for desktop and for mobiles. I can understand that doing so can be desireable today for the following reasons: 1. Users have to pay per byte for browsing on the mobile. 2. The connection speed on mobiles is slow. 3. Many mobile browsers have bad support for CSS. On the longer term, (1) should be addressed by providers offering monthly fees; (2) should be addressed by improving mobile networks, and (3) by improving the implementations. (2) and (3) are already happening, and I wouldn't be surprised if (1) happened soon. When these have been addressed, there is little reason for authors to provide separate versions for mobiles and for desktop, as opposed to using one version that works for both. The tests warn for things that are not supported on some mobile devices, such as scripting, even though it is possible to provide fallback content for UAs without scripting and including scripts doesn't harm UAs that don't support it. I would suggest not warning for things that don't harm mobile browsers and could benefit other UAs, in the interest of not putting unnecessary strain on authors.