Thanks for this Adam. A few questions.
On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Adam Baso <abaso(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi there -
A lot of people on Wikipedia Zero use browsers ("User Agents", or
"UAs" for
short) incompatible with site JavaScript [1]. We want to ensure that
critical functionality is basically functional for these people, and we've
been tracking findings at
https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Lower_end_devices_checkup.
Thus far, we've re-reviewed Search [2] and Login/Account Creation [3], and
we'll be going over the other ones over the next several sprints.
I just added some screenshots from Opera Mini to the two Trello cards below.
To replicate Opera Mini behavior for oneself, if you don't already have it,
you can install Opera Mini on a device like an Android or iOS device. Then
set the app's mode to "Opera Mini" mode. Depending on your OS, you may or
may not need to toggle this "Opera Mini" setting; it might be on by default.
You can also use the emulator as described on the Wikipedia Zero tech page
[4].
-Adam
[1]
https://git.wikimedia.org/blob/mediawiki%2Fcore.git/09c55592a73544cc21e002f…
This shows JavaScript UAs for which it's known that the JavaScript
capabilities are likely insufficient for a number of JavaScript features,
and thus the ResourceLoader technology instructs the UA to not commence with
further JavaScript loading. There are also other UAs with no JavaScript
support or with broken JavaScript implementations.
[2]
https://trello.com/c/blWoHdk8/1-improve-special-search-for-lower-end-device…
Incidentally, there's currently a regression making it impossible to enter
searches, at least on the Android and iOS Opera Mini clients I tested.
Please can you track this regression on bugzilla with replication
instructions? I haven't heard about this bug and it sounds like
something that could easily be taken care of. A trello card seems
overkill.
Yeh there is a bug [1] and it's fixed in alpha. We'll have to find a
way of accelerating the alpha login form into stable for opera mini
users as unfortunately we hit some unexpected roadblocks around the
login form.
[1]
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68758
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