2010/9/6 MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com:
I was under the impression the goal for the mobile redirection was to make it entirely server-side, not client-side. That is, the goal isn't to move the script to <head>, it's to remove the need for a script altogether. More info at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24859
Ultimately, yes. We discussed this briefly last week while giving Mark a rundown of the resource loader, and Mark said that server-side UA-based redirects are definitely feasible, but only after we move to Varnish for our text caching (we currently use Varnish on bits for JS/CSS caching and Squid for text and image caching). From what I understood and remember, the Varnish migration is not really a top priority right now and is expected to be completed in a year or so. In the meantime, we can make the mobile redirect suck slightly less.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)