[WikimediaMobile] Switching Android app from iframe to div; ICS compatibility

[Brion Vibber]

After some positive results in tests this morning, we're switching the
Android mobile app from loading pages in an <iframe> to loading them into a
<div> directly within the main document.

I like the ideal world of content separation that iframes should give, but
there are a lot of bugs in mobile browsers related to iframe handling,
which interfered with layout, scrolling, clicking on UI elements in the
search bar, etc. Some additional bugs made the app unusable on the latest
Android 4.0 ("Ice Cream Sandwich")-based phones.

There could be some regressions, especially related to layout & style,
because the content is now in the same document as the main UI. Good
modularity should keep the styles separate but... there might still be
surprises. ;)

Latest nightly builds should include the new code, or wait for RC4 which
should come soonish.


I also ran some experiments with iscroll <http://cubiq.org/iscroll-4>, a
library that can manage improved scrolling of <div> sections including zoom
support. While these were positive in functionality, it was also much too
slow on medium to large articles, so needs to be put off at least until we
separate out sections better, so there's less material to scroll around.

-- brion
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