[Wikimedia-l] [WikimediaMobile] Where to redirect m.wikipedia.org?

[Yuri Astrakhan]

Ok, so it seems the redirect to WWW would be better than language
auto-detect.

Before I switch it from the English mobile (current) to WWW, we have to
make sure that WWW is ready - as that would affect all mobile users. Jon,
how much work do you think that would be?


On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Jon Robson <jdlrobson at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd keep it redirecting to http://www.wikipedia.org/ which I worked
> previously on to optimise for mobile.
>
> The only difference I'd make to the existing homepage is to reverse
> the media queries. Currently media queries are used to optimise the
> page for mobile phones. Unfortunately however if you have an old phone
> that doesn't support media queries you will get the old website.
>
> What would actually be better is to make mobile the default and use
> media queries for desktop computers to apply styles to turn the page
> into a more desktop friendly view. All modern browsers on desktop
> support media queries [1] and update more frequently then mobile
> devices. The only browsers you'd have to worry about is IE6-8 but
> there are conditional css tricks to get around this problem.
>
> I think previously I worked with Timo (Krinkle) to get this up and running.
>
> [1] http://caniuse.com/css-mediaqueries
>
> On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 12:52 AM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 1:16 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
> > srik.ramk at wikimedia.in> wrote:
> >
> >> I agree with James. I'd like to m.wikipedia land up at a portal with a
> >> language list and selector.
> >>
> >
> > +1
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