Hi, all... I'd like to revive some interest in improving support for
mobile browsers.
Extremely limited WAP-based browsers are at least sort of served by the
experimental WAP gateway, but there are a lot of smartphones and other
handheld devices that get on the "real" web with greater or lesser
degrees of success, and I'd like to see us improve the default look &
feel of MediaWiki on them.
At the moment I think we can roughly divide the mobile browsers into two
categories:
* Those that render much like a full desktop browser and let you zoom as
necessary (iPhone/Mobile Safari, Opera Mini, ...?)
* Those that have very limited CSS and JavaScript or strip a lot of
stuff down (Opera Mini in "mobile view" mode, most others?)
At the moment, all I've got access to are an iPhone and the Opera Mini
simulator applet, so that's what I'll be putting the occasional bit of
time into. These already pretty much "just work", but the UI can be very
awkward due to the desktop-size layout; I'd like a cleaner handheld
stylesheet that lets most pages be legible when you get to them.
If you've got another device and you'd like to help testing and
developing for it, please stake your claim at:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile_browser_testing
Alternatively if you've got a spare device you can donate to us, that'd
be great too! (Especially if it doesn't need a service subscription to
get on the net...)
-- brion vibber (brion @
wikimedia.org)