Στις 11-12-2012, ημέρα Τρι, και ώρα 19:04 -0500, ο/η MZMcBride έγραψε:
Brion Vibber wrote:
Over on the mobile team we've been chatting for a while about the various trade-offs in native vs HTML-based (PhoneGap/Cordova) development.
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iOS and Android remain our top-tier mobile platforms, and we know we can do better on them than we do so far...
Any thoughts? Wildly in favor or against?
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Looking at the big picture, I don't think we'll ever see widespread editing from mobile devices. The user experience is simply too awful. The best I think most people are hoping for is the ability to easily fix a typo, maybe, but even then you have to assess costs vs. benefit. That is, is it really worth paying two or three full-time employees so that someone can easily change "Barrack" to "Barack" from his or her iPhone? Probably not.
Actually I think this one of the very things we really want to target. How many readers become editors after sitting down and writing a full article with references from scratch? How many make a small change, fix a typo or a date or a grammatical error, tweak a sentence or two? Making this work well on mobile devices seems to me like time and resources well spent; I'm less convinced that folks need to be able to add complex infoboxes but that discussion can be put off until more modest goals are achieved. By then the landscape will have shifted again and we can re-evaluate.
I don't know if that is best achieved via a native platform or not. There were a couple of previous projects that were all about making small edits (e.g. [1]). How well can such an approach be adapted for mobile use?
Ariel