On 2 June 2010 19:50, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote on foundation-l:
In my opinion, the world is not best served by hyper-optimizing for the most frequent and shallow interests of the largest majorities. I think that extreme inclusiveness of all kinds of interests, often at a small expense to the most common cases was previously a core design value for the site, but that doesn't really seem to be the case anymore... just like the main site is still unbrowsable on blackberry (formally some 14 million page views per day, for those playing the numbers game) or PS3.
Just a query - how's getting graceful degradation for BlackBerry and PS3 users going? I've had people asking me about the BlackBerry one casually ... is there any schedule on this, does it have any priority?
- d.
2010/6/2 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
Just a query - how's getting graceful degradation for BlackBerry and PS3 users going? I've had people asking me about the BlackBerry one casually ... is there any schedule on this, does it have any priority?
We are working on this. Last I heard, people were looking at redirecting these users to the mobile site.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 9:03 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Just a query - how's getting graceful degradation for BlackBerry and PS3 users going? I've had people asking me about the BlackBerry one casually ... is there any schedule on this, does it have any priority?
From the Department for Popular Gadget Technology of Wikimedia
Foundation, I can say that this issue is going pretty well. Maybe not so visible at the moment, but we are doing things behind the scenes.
The first improvement is rescaling Wikipedia to fit on 320x240 screens. We will remove all necessary things, like "edit" is -- to make Wikipedia more useful.
Other improvements are secret as we are willing to make a great event by announcing it at once at all major important media, like Fox and Sun are. Our friends deserve to get the information first!
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