The following link outlines a way to add the simple device detection
to the current Mobile Frontend extension.
I'll work on a more complete solution that utilizes WURFL and post that later.
— Patrick
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Daniel Friesen
<lists(a)nadir-seen-fire.com> wrote:
I've heard of some sites using a pattern like /m/
for their mobile site.
We can probably support that option as well.
--
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [
http://daniel.friesen.name]
On Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:00:45 -0800, User:Matthewrbowker
<matthewrbowker.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I, for one, would love to use Mobile Frontend to
add mobile
functionality on a wiki I run (at least to view, is it possible to add
editing?). However, I don't have the option of defining a separate
mobile sub-subdomain (my wiki is already on a subdomain) because of
limitations set by my web host.
Matthew Bowker
On Jan 9, 2012, at 12:03, Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com> wrote:
> Quick questions:
>
> * Does anybody actually want to use MobileFrontend to implement a
> feature-phone gateway on other sites?
>
> If so, it may be worth doing some of that cleanup to make things more
> portable.
>
> Note that I'd also love to kill the "m." stuff as it's problematic
in a
> number of ways, so I wouldn't worry too much about stuff related to
> mobile-specific URLs.
>
>
> * Do people intend primarily to make the wiki's user interface more
> friendly to modern smartphones, without caring about feature phones?
>
> If so, then moving to the next generation beyond our current
> MobileFrontend
> is probably a better use of energy. MobileFrontend's architecture is
> keyed
> on basically being like a proxy, so it can produce output tuned to
> phones
> with very limited capabilities without the rest of MediaWiki needing to
> worry about how those things work.
>
> This isn't really what we want for smartphones and tablets in the
> future;
> they should instead get the same interface and capabilities as the
> desktop
> provides, but the interface should tune itself for small or large
> screens,
> touch-centric or mouse-centric layouts. In the future this won't involve
> the MobileFrontend extension at all, it'll just be in our core CSS & JS
> code's behavior.
>
>
> -- brion
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