Hi,
I've been asked on the Wikimedia India mailing list whether WebFonts work on the mobile sites, and frankly, i didn't know what to say.
I'm not even sure what the mobile sites *are* now. If i browse from my laptop to https://ta.m.wikipedia.org, am i supposed to see what a user who browses to https://ta.wikipedia.org from his phone sees?
If that is the situation, then most Wikipedias in Indic languages are probably not properly configured to support the mobile site. I found actual content only on Tamil (ta), Marathi (mr) and, somewhat surprisingly, Sanskrit (sa). All the other Wikipedias only show a search box and some boilerplate text, although most of it is translated.
Is it worth the effort to tell the local admins there to make the necessary configuration or is the mobile site going to change soon?
Thank you,
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
At this time the mobile interface does not support WebFonts or any other extension (the MobileFrontend extension does the mobile formatting, and doesn't currently pass through any other extensions' JavaScript or CSS).
You can click through the 'view on regular wikipedia' link to test whether WebFonts works there; if support is good we can make the extensions talk to each other.
There is some concern that Indic fonts are likely to fail to render properly even if the fonts come through due to limitations in the platforms, but that's what testing is for! :)
The blank home pages are a known issue with how they get special-cased in the reformatted if they don't have specially marked sections; there should be a doc page around somewhere...
-- brion On Dec 15, 2011 12:20 AM, "Amir E. Aharoni" amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
Hi,
I've been asked on the Wikimedia India mailing list whether WebFonts work on the mobile sites, and frankly, i didn't know what to say.
I'm not even sure what the mobile sites *are* now. If i browse from my laptop to https://ta.m.wikipedia.org, am i supposed to see what a user who browses to https://ta.wikipedia.org from his phone sees?
If that is the situation, then most Wikipedias in Indic languages are probably not properly configured to support the mobile site. I found actual content only on Tamil (ta), Marathi (mr) and, somewhat surprisingly, Sanskrit (sa). All the other Wikipedias only show a search box and some boilerplate text, although most of it is translated.
Is it worth the effort to tell the local admins there to make the necessary configuration or is the mobile site going to change soon?
Thank you,
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
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Amir,
The blank home pages require some configuration, as described here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects/Mobile_Gateway#Mobile_homepag...
We are working on JavaScript tiering that in theory could help if/when we turn on some extensions. But as we saw in India (that night we tried Web Fonts on my Android phone), it may be very challenging to run some extensions on any mobile device.
There will also be limitations in lower devices, including Android 2.3 and lower, as I recall, which lacks a rendering engine, so dynamic font delivery will not work.
Difficult challenges on mobile. I would like to test Narayam on the mobile site.
In a related note, have you tried the latest Android app in Hebrew? Or any other language?
Thanks.
Phil
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 2:12 AM, Brion Vibber bvibber@wikimedia.org wrote:
At this time the mobile interface does not support WebFonts or any other extension (the MobileFrontend extension does the mobile formatting, and doesn't currently pass through any other extensions' JavaScript or CSS).
You can click through the 'view on regular wikipedia' link to test whether WebFonts works there; if support is good we can make the extensions talk to each other.
There is some concern that Indic fonts are likely to fail to render properly even if the fonts come through due to limitations in the platforms, but that's what testing is for! :)
The blank home pages are a known issue with how they get special-cased in the reformatted if they don't have specially marked sections; there should be a doc page around somewhere...
-- brion On Dec 15, 2011 12:20 AM, "Amir E. Aharoni" amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
Hi,
I've been asked on the Wikimedia India mailing list whether WebFonts work on the mobile sites, and frankly, i didn't know what to say.
I'm not even sure what the mobile sites *are* now. If i browse from my laptop to https://ta.m.wikipedia.org, am i supposed to see what a user who browses to https://ta.wikipedia.org from his phone sees?
If that is the situation, then most Wikipedias in Indic languages are probably not properly configured to support the mobile site. I found actual content only on Tamil (ta), Marathi (mr) and, somewhat surprisingly, Sanskrit (sa). All the other Wikipedias only show a search box and some boilerplate text, although most of it is translated.
Is it worth the effort to tell the local admins there to make the necessary configuration or is the mobile site going to change soon?
Thank you,
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l
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