I just looked and I could only find 2 bugs filed about Vector not working on mobile devices. The first was for it being broken in NetFront browsers. This was fixed less than a month after being reported (and within a week of Wikimedia getting a device to test on). The second was for Vector crashing some blackberry phones. This was traced to a bug on Blackberry's side (the same day the bug was reported). A work-around was implemented a week later. Further testing was done on eight different models of blackberries and across 3 different Firmware versions. It was determined that phones upgraded to the v5 Firmware no longer crashed. That doesn't sound like Wikimedia being "slow to act".
And for what it's worth, Vector was apparently tested on IEMobile. It worked in the tests, but of course it's impossible to test every version of every browser on every phone OS.
Thanks for sending the user agent string, that will be useful for filing a bug in Bugzilla.
Ryan Kaldari
On 8/18/10 12:10 PM, David Gerard wrote:
On 18 August 2010 19:57, Ryan Kaldarirkaldari@wikimedia.org wrote:
I'm not sure insulting the people who worked on Vector is the best way to motivated them to fix things. At the last company I worked for (which owns a couple of top 100 websites and has a staff of thousands), they didn't even care about their sites working right on iPhones. Considering the number of cell phones that Vector does work on, and the fact that it was implemented by a small handful of developers, I think they should be commended rather than insulted. But that's just me. (FYI, I had no involvement in Vector development.)
It worked, then it broke, and Wikimedia didn't check beforehand and was slow to act on it. That's the sequence of events as it actually occurred. That doesn't look good to the end users, no matter how little the people who made the change like it.
- d.
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