Yeh, I envisioned search might be a link at the top, but we can
iterate on that. A lot of our traffic is from search results, so I
think the more important function is reading, but we definitely should
provide a search function.
I think any phone which has a screen res of around 240px but media
query support is doomed - maybe some old Nokia phones.
Support of modern devices is pretty good across the board
http://caniuse.com/css-mediaqueries
On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Gautam Chandna <gautamc@opera.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Adam Baso <abaso@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> I actually think what would be the best solution here is to hide all
>>> the Wikipedia chrome for screens, and replace it with links to Home
>>> (and in future Search) at the top. I've knocked up a patch that does
>>> this - https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/138867 and would be interested
>>> in your views.
>>
>>
>> Here's roughly what the browsing experience would look like with Jon's
>> patch, presuming media query support for max-width:
>>
>> https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BxJX28FKLm78dDNPN29naGlPSEk/edit?pli=1
>
>
> Opera Mini supports max-width and max-device-width
> If you'd like to test this on Opera Mini, I've added a java emulator with
> mini4 and mini8 jad/jar files here:
> https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B-yck2WBt5TwekdHa0kxN0psRk0&usp=sharing
>
> Instructions are simple:
> - Have Java
> - Double-click/run the microemulator.jar file
> - [optional] Options->Select device->Resizable device->Resize
> - File->Open->mini4.jad or mini8.jad
>
>>
>>
>> It's unclear if removal of /all/ of the chrome is optimal. Although
>> there's a need for some slight improvement in the UX of the searchbar for
>> users on Opera (and other <noscript> or RL JS-restricted UAs) today, taking
>> away the search box at the top of the page would get rid of perhaps 136,000
>> searches per day on Opera sourced searches from from article display
>> (contrast this with 100-300 successful Add to Watchlist actions per day on
>> Opera).
>>
>> $ zcat /a/squid/archive/mobile/mobile-sampled-100.tsv.log-20140611.gz |
>> grep 'proxy=Opera' | grep '/w/index.php?search=' | cut -f12 | grep -c
>> '/wiki/'
>> 1362
>
>
> Search is usually a big deal on mobile phones/Opera. So it probably helps to
> keep that bar, just with some background image or CSS borders. Opera Mini
> has pretty good support for CSS. I recommend taking a look at m.facebook.com
> on Opera Mini 4 and 8, to see how they're dealing with our rendering. (Not
> that their UI applies to wikimedia, but that their heavy use of CSS shows
> what's possible.)
>
>>
>>
>> $ zcat /a/squid/archive/mobile/mobile-sampled-100.tsv.log-20140611.gz |
>> grep 'proxy=Opera' | grep -c 'action=watch'
>> 1
>>
>> -Adam
>>
>
>
>
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