This is definitely an interesting area. It's actually pretty trivial to detect if a website has a mobile version. We'll just need to look for a viewport meta-tag. What needs more research and experimenting is what to do when we find a page that's not mobile friendly.
The current readermode code works pretty well for pages that are actual articles. But it doesn't work well for the "front page" of essentially any website. Readermode is currently written to find a single large chunk of text and remove everything else. However a front page of a new website is usually a collection of links, sometimes together with a short summary of the article and maybe a picture. It would be a big help if we could create a readermode version of these types of pages as well. / Jonas On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 7:54 AM, Peter Dolanjski <[email protected]> wrote: > One idea: > We've been discussing how we can unlock the potential of existing Web > content to provide immediate user value (in conjunction with our longer term > initiatives to move the overall market in a certain direction). > Right now mobile users are faced with: > - non-optimized (to screen size/input method) Web content > - Web content that does not yet make use of offline capabilities > - and more > > The project could be to determine whether or not it is possible to > heuristically determine when to put the user into a reader mode (or other) > type of experience and experiment with the automatic caching of content as a > way of improving the overall experience of the Web on mobile. > Yes, this could "break the Web", but the results may give us some good > insights into how we can add value to users of the mobile Web to overcome > the sometimes poor experiences they get today. > We may look at doing some of this in the next year, but an academic take on > this may uncover additional opportunities. > > Peter > > On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 9:07 AM, Michael Henretty <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Personally, I would love to see a mobile version of IRCCloud. The desktop >> version is bloated and doesn't run well on mobile. Also, it doesn't support >> WebPush, and push notifications are what makes the Android/iOS apps really >> valuable imo. I've heard that the company behind IRCCloud doesn't have the >> resources right now to make a mobile optimized site, but they are open to >> the idea. Perhaps we could reach out to them if we went down this path. >> >> On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 3:08 AM, Dietrich Ayala <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> The Oregon State University senior capstone program is starting up >>> again this fall and asked if we'd like to participate again. >>> >>> This is a program where three senior CS students work for nine months >>> on a project we define. >>> >>> It's a great opportunity to knock off one of those items that we know >>> we need to do, but always gets pushed off because it's not highest >>> priority. >>> >>> If you have ideas, send them to me this week! >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Dietrich >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "b2g-internal" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.com/d/msgid/b2g-internal/CALiXR3mNNBj8fLFVjqomtCdi-uhOrfd3Mjv_CFEFh%2Br%3DY9tV-g%40mail.gmail.com. >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dev-b2g mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g >> > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-gaia mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-gaia > _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
