And some more thoughts -
#2: Missing
footer links
The links 'View this page on regular Wikipedia', 'Disable images on
mobile site' and 'Permanently disable mobile site' disappear from the
footer. The last 2 I think can be lived without, and I would imagine
these would be better places in a settings page anyhow however view
this page on regular wikipedia is. I think the best place for this in
the time being is to move it into the navigation menu (revealed when
you click the mediawiki logo) and to shorten the text to 'desktop'
site. Does anyone have objections to this?
+1 on the rename. We've been wanting to do change it to desktop for a
while. In the future I can see us having
'Desktop | Tablet | Mobile' across all sites.
Now for the other functionality. Thats tough as while I agree that it
should not be there anymore ... but we don't have enough of the nav
design nor do we want to do it just yet. Thus we have three options
Per discussion in IRC yesterday, I'm currently working on changing how
switching between desktop/mobile view is handled when the switch is
manually requested, in order to keep things simple and intuitive.
When on the desktop view, you will continue to see the 'Mobile view' link
at the bottom of a page. Clicking on it will send you to the URL you're
currently viewing with 'useformat=mobile' in the query string.
MobileFrontend will then set a cookie that will keep you on the mobile site
until you elect to no longer be on the mobile site by clicking 'Desktop
view' (instead of 'View this page on regular {{sitname}}).
Clicking 'Desktop view' will send you to the URL you're currently viewing
with 'useformat=desktop' in the query string. MobileFrontend with then set
a cookie that will keep you on the desktop site until you elect to no
longer be on the desktop site by clicking 'Mobile view'.
As for 'disable images' - I'm ambivalent about this. I imagine this is
useful functionality - do we have any metrics about it?
And as for link placement - I actually think it's best to keep the links in
question in the footer. It's not entirely intuitive (at least to me) that
clicking the logo will reveal a menu. The footer is where we have the
desktop -> mobile link and I think it is valuable to keep that consistent
with the mobile view -> desktop view link. If someone wants to switch from
mobile -> desktop, they probably want to do it quickly and painlessly, so
providing them the easiest, obvious-est way to do so seems the best
solution.
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Arthur Richards
Software Engineer, Mobile
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