At 2010-08-18 21:50, Ryan Kaldari wrote:
I just looked and I could only find 2 bugs filed about Vector not working on mobile devices. The first was for it being broken in NetFront browsers. This was fixed less than a month after being reported (and within a week of Wikimedia getting a device to test on). The second was for Vector crashing some blackberry phones. This was traced to a bug on Blackberry's side (the same day the bug was reported). A work-around was implemented a week later. Further testing was done on eight different models of blackberries and across 3 different Firmware versions. It was determined that phones upgraded to the v5 Firmware no longer crashed. That doesn't sound like Wikimedia being "slow to act".
And for what it's worth, Vector was apparently tested on IEMobile. It worked in the tests, but of course it's impossible to test every version of every browser on every phone OS.
Thanks for sending the user agent string, that will be useful for filing a bug in Bugzilla.
BTW. PPK made some tests for mobile phones and their browsers: http://www.quirksmode.org/mobile/
He might shout a lot on devs ;-), but I think that the Foundation might convince him to make some tests in various phones (he has quite a lot of them). You would at least know for sure which must be switch to mobile version at all times and which should (might display some preference dialogue). Also dynamic switch to monobook for some phones might be nice.
Just some thoughts.
Regards, Nux.