I've taken the liberty of adding this to the gadgets proposals page on en.wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Gadget/proposals#Mobile_sidebar If no objection I'll set it up tomorrow. Also I put the .js and .css files on github for easier patching: https://github.com/brion/MediaWiki-MobileSidebar -- brion On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 6:07 PM, Brion Vibber <bvibber(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:

This is cool although I'm not sure how I feel about. This is not just a mobile problem, this is a skin problem. In the distant future, I would hope after Trevor's work on the skin system we would have a much healthier ecosystem of skins which work nicely in both mobile and desktop mode. If Vector suddenly became responsive, or Winter was released, how could we make this useful for those skins too? Maybe what we need here is a "preview in another skin" which allows you to resize the window to mobile size, tablet size? e.g. I wonder if this should be built into the preview page of the site? On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 10:09 PM, Brion Vibber <bvibber(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:

On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 2:27 AM, Prateek Saxena <psaxena(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: Note that mobile devices often have a scaling factor which needs to be compensated for; 480x800 mobile screens usually have a density of 1.5x which means they'd cover just 320x533 CSS pixels. And let's not even start on the iPhone 6 Plus, which has a different physical resolution from the rendering resolution (aghhhh!) Awwww :D -- brion