Greetings all,
Last month Arthur made significant strides to remove a lot of WMF
customizations inside MobileFrontend (
http://bit.ly/Ht9StP). That was
a good first step at addressing the issues rasied in
http://bit.ly/HZbgVW but more needs to be done if we want to reach
Brion's vision of,
"One codebase to do everything except WAP".
In order to do this, MediaWiki at its core has to become device aware.
We have to get to a point where providing output for desktop, mobile,
tablet, etc is as simple as described in bugzilla:30405
(
http://bit.ly/I70xI7)
We've drawn up a task list and documented it at
http://bit.ly/Hw5TbT .
While some tasks block on the new parser most do not. Specifically
* Move mobile actions to special pages (in order to avoid caching
related issues)
* Move DOM parsing to core
* Improve DOM parser caching
* Skinning + making MW device aware
are all tasks that can be picked up now. If you've wanted to hack on
mobile then this is a great time to set the future of how editors,
developers, etc create device aware solutions.
Please throw up comments on the discussion page and join us on
#wikimedia-mobile.
— Tomasz