As some of you know I'm working on Heather's designs for MobileFrontend (see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile_design) - a webkit preview version of which you can view here - http://jonrobson.me.uk/wikipedia/#
I'm keen to make the finishing touches to the footer, expandable sections and full screen search and spend some time looking at older mobile browsers to make sure they look and function acceptably and get this all checked into svn - I can then plan to move on to the reference reveal and contact form which I'm sure I'll need some help on.
There are 3 things I'm not sure about how to deal with so would appreciate your thoughts...
#1: Copyright text One of the things that's causing me headaches is Heather quite rightly in her designs throws away a lot of the links from the footer and tidies up the copyright/license text (See the footer in http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Mobile_end_expand.png). As you can see this basically rearranges the text in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Wikimedia-copyright Can anyone see an easy way to do this? Ideally I'd want a way to access the copyright notice and the license from within the MobileFrontend to allow other non-Wikipedia sites to customise this text.
#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?
#3: New footer links http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Mobile_end_expand.png Could someone tell me how I can generate the footer from php Do Contact, Privacy, About, Disclaimer always point to the same pages? How can I generate the correct urls and labels for these pages and check for their existance?
Thanks for your help!
Jon Robson http://jonrobson.me.uk @rakugojon