On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Cary Bass <[email protected]> wrote: > -----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.
Thanks! Any feedback on whether it's better or not? Magnus _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
