I think a better answer to your question is: "nothing that's been officially resourced at this time".
We currently have a 2-device strategy, which means we redirect some devices to a mobile site, and the rest remain at the normal "desktop" site. The closest thing to responsive design we have in production is the way the Vector skin adjusts it's layout – if not subtly – if the browser is above or below a given threshold.
Responsive design is a hot topic, and there are a lot of really exiting projects in this area right now, but there are also some overlooked issues. Many mobile devices are amazingly powerful, but sending the same JavaScript and CSS payloads to all devices still results in a much heavier payload on smaller less capable devices that in some cases may even cause them to crash. This can be fixed using a variety of techniques, but it illustrates how responsive design – when done right – is more than a new skin that delivers HTML and some CSS, only for all the same extensions, user scripts and gadgets that were designed with the desktop in mind to pile on and clog up the "tubes" while wreaking havoc on "simplified" pages presented to mobile users.
A good example of this problem's unclear solution is how the mobile site does not load the same extensions, user scripts and styles and gadgets as the desktop site; and what's more is the issue with the use of inline styles throughout the site and how difficult it is to deal with on mobile devices with an alternate – simplified – layout.
All this said, MediaWiki is an open source project and you shouldn't ever feel the need to wait until something "ships". I would recommend you start out with an existing skin, tear it down to it's simplest elements, and then start adding CSS and modifying the HTML output until you have what you are looking for. If you need some help, this list is a good place to be, but also make sure and get onto irc.freenode.net #mediawiki where you might be able to get quick answers to simpler questions.
- Trevor
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 2:11 AM, John Elliot jj5@jj5.net wrote:
I don't know who Brandon is. I'm planning on bundling MediaWiki with a product of mine and I'd like it to work well with smart phones and other mobile devices. I'm not sure that I would have the time or expertise to get the Athena theme done by myself and just wanted to know if it was on the agenda. Look forward to seeing it when it ships.
On 2012-07-28 08:36, Terry Chay wrote:
Are you a Brandon plant trying to get us to resource Athena again? :-)
On Jul 27, 2012, at 3:01 AM, John Elliot jj5@jj5.net wrote:
Are there any initiatives in the MediaWiki community for a MediaWiki theme that supports 'responsive design' [1] -- where content is properly laid out in an accessible form on all manner of devices including desktops and smart phones?
[1] http://www.alistapart.com/articles/responsive-web-design/
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