Facebook joins W3C to combat browser fragmentation

  
BARCELONA--At Mobile World Congress (MWC) Facebook said it would be joining over 30 device manufacturers, carriers, and developers in an industry-wide effort to help accelerate the improvement and standardization of mobile browsers.

The consortium, known as the W3C Mobile Web Platform Core Community Group, aims to make it easier for developers to understand their app's potential reach and prioritize which browser capabilities are most important to them.

Bret Taylor, Facebook’s CTO, said the firm was making available a new mobile browser test suite --Ringmark-- to help developers know which mobile browsers support the functionality their app needs.