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
Kaldari<rkaldari(a)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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