Re: [Wikitech-l] No autodetection in Mobile Frontend extension

-- ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name] On Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:00:45 -0800, User:Matthewrbowker matthewrbowker.wiki@gmail.com wrote: > I, for one, would love to use Mobile Frontend to add mobile > functionality on a wiki I run (at least to view, is it possible to add > editing?). However, I don't have the option of defining a separate > mobile sub-subdomain (my wiki is already on a subdomain) because of > limitations set by my web host. > > Matthew Bowker > > On Jan 9, 2012, at 12:03, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote: > >> Quick questions: >> >> * Does anybody actually want to use MobileFrontend to implement a >> feature-phone gateway on other sites? >> >> If so, it may be worth doing some of that cleanup to make things more >> portable. >> >> Note that I'd also love to kill the "m." stuff as it's problematic in a >> number of ways, so I wouldn't worry too much about stuff related to >> mobile-specific URLs. >> >> >> * Do people intend primarily to make the wiki's user interface more >> friendly to modern smartphones, without caring about feature phones? >> >> If so, then moving to the next generation beyond our current >> MobileFrontend >> is probably a better use of energy. MobileFrontend's architecture is >> keyed >> on basically being like a proxy, so it can produce output tuned to >> phones >> with very limited capabilities without the rest of MediaWiki needing to >> worry about how those things work. >> >> This isn't really what we want for smartphones and tablets in the >> future; >> they should instead get the same interface and capabilities as the >> desktop >> provides, but the interface should tune itself for small or large >> screens, >> touch-centric or mouse-centric layouts. In the future this won't involve >> the MobileFrontend extension at all, it'll just be in our core CSS & JS >> code's behavior. >> >> >> -- brion >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l