[Wikimediaindia-l] Webfonts on Mobile

[Was: Webfonts deployment on Indic Wikiprojects] 2011/12/14 Pradeep Mohandas &lt;pradeep.mohandas(a)gmail.com&gt;om>: I am doing my best to test it in any mobile phone and tablet upon which i come up, but we cannot systematically cover all the possible devices and mobile OS versions. That's where the community comes in - please test it in any device you can find and report bugs! The WebFonts extension is deployed for all supported languages in translatewiki.net and is updated several times a day with the newest changes. Please feel free to create WebFonts testing pages there. The short summary of my tests is that: * WebFonts are just ignored in older versions of Android, in the various Mobile Windows versions, in Symbian (Nokia) and in Blackberry. * WebFonts may work on the newest Android versions, but i did very little testing on that, and it changes between browsers. * WebFonts are loaded on Apple devices like iPhone and iPad, but not always rendered correctly. * WebFonts work well in devices that run a real GNU/Linux OS, such as Nokia N900. Very sadly, such devices are expensive and rare. (<rant>It's just criminal how Nokia markets them so weakly.</rant>) * <biased-opinion>My impression is that mobile Firefox (a.k.a Fennec), in general, has better support for i18n, like web fonts, fonts in general and right-to-left languages, but please test for yourself and don't take my word for it.</biased-opinion> (Disclaimer: I'm a volunteer Mozilla Rep.) WebFonts are not currently deployed on Malayalam and Tamil Wikimedia projects. These are probably the same squares you would see a week ago. WebFonts are deployed on translatewiki.net and on test.wikipedia.org, so again - please test them there as much as possible. You can also try testing in other languages of India. -- Amir E. Aharoni Wikimedia i18n team