On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 2:41 AM, Strainu strainu10@gmail.com wrote:
I've logged this as an enhancement: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32597
Thanks!
It's a shame we have to go through some not-so-nice hacks to make the content for mobiles different than the one for desktops. Perhaps the architecture is too iPhone/American oriented? Not all mobile users
Are XML DOM parsers that American and iPhone centric? I sure hope not as the rest of the Internet is going to have to be informed ...
have unlimited traffic. Many people around me disable images on mobile internet.
Yup, and thats why we've had the option to disable images for many months now. It lowered the payload by half. Lots of people use it. If you see other data heavy features on pages that we can get rid of then please file a bug. Were always eager to lower our payload.
Hope you will give that some serious thought when the time comes.
We already have and would love to drop it down even more. Next interesting step would actually be to load sections only when people want them. That'll drop down the payload even more.
Turn on the webkit network profiler and let us know whats really slowing us down.
--tomasz