I, for one, would love to use Mobile Frontend to add mobile functionality on a wiki I run (at least to view, is it possible to add editing?). However, I don't have the option of defining a separate mobile sub-subdomain (my wiki is already on a subdomain) because of limitations set by my web host.
Matthew Bowker
On Jan 9, 2012, at 12:03, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
Quick questions:
- Does anybody actually want to use MobileFrontend to implement a
feature-phone gateway on other sites?
If so, it may be worth doing some of that cleanup to make things more portable.
Note that I'd also love to kill the "m." stuff as it's problematic in a number of ways, so I wouldn't worry too much about stuff related to mobile-specific URLs.
- Do people intend primarily to make the wiki's user interface more
friendly to modern smartphones, without caring about feature phones?
If so, then moving to the next generation beyond our current MobileFrontend is probably a better use of energy. MobileFrontend's architecture is keyed on basically being like a proxy, so it can produce output tuned to phones with very limited capabilities without the rest of MediaWiki needing to worry about how those things work.
This isn't really what we want for smartphones and tablets in the future; they should instead get the same interface and capabilities as the desktop provides, but the interface should tune itself for small or large screens, touch-centric or mouse-centric layouts. In the future this won't involve the MobileFrontend extension at all, it'll just be in our core CSS & JS code's behavior.
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