-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06/15/2010 02:30 AM, Magnus Manske wrote: > Hi all, > > since there's already several million iPad (and soon, other > tablet) users out there, I thought I'd try one in the Apple store > to see what Wikipedia looks/feels like. Generally, I think it's > very nice, with one exception. In "portrait" mode, the sidebar > takes up a lot of real estate. Especially when you scroll down a > long page, there's this annoying white bar on the left that serves > no real purpose. Also, IMHO, it destroys that "book feeling" that > would fit so well with the iPad. > > So I wrote a quick JS hack that /should/ hide the sidebar on the > iPad. Instead, it shows an icon in the top left corner that, when > "finger-clicked", will show the sidebar again, in case you really > want it. > > Demo (on Commons, because of the "withJS" option there): > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page?withJS=MediaWiki:Adjust4iPad.js > > > Now, that should /only/ work on the iPad. Could someone please confirm > this and tell me if it's an improvement. On image pages it > probably doesn't matter a lot, but more text-laden pages like > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Welcome?withJS=MediaWiki:Adjust4iPad.js > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Reusing_content_outside_Wikimedia?withJS=MediaWiki:Adjust4iPad.js > it should make a visible difference. > > If it is as good as I suspect, we could use it by default on the > Wikipedias etc. There's lots of room for improvement; maybe the > sidebar could appear when switching to landscape mode (as in the > mail app). The usability experts may want to take a look :-) According to my local iPad <s>cultist</s> enthusiast, it works.
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