On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Adam Baso <[email protected]> wrote:
> I actually think what would be the best solution here is to hide all >> the Wikipedia chrome for screens, and replace it with links to Home >> (and in future Search) at the top. I've knocked up a patch that does >> this - https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/138867 and would be interested >> in your views. > > > Here's roughly what the browsing experience would look like with Jon's > patch, presuming media query support for max-width: > > https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BxJX28FKLm78dDNPN29naGlPSEk/edit?pli=1 > Opera Mini supports max-width and max-device-width If you'd like to test this on Opera Mini, I've added a java emulator with mini4 and mini8 jad/jar files here: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B-yck2WBt5TwekdHa0kxN0psRk0&usp=sharing Instructions are simple: - Have Java - Double-click/run the microemulator.jar file - [optional] Options->Select device->Resizable device->Resize - File->Open->mini4.jad or mini8.jad > > It's unclear if removal of /all/ of the chrome is optimal. Although > there's a need for some slight improvement in the UX of the searchbar for > users on Opera (and other <noscript> or RL JS-restricted UAs) today, taking > away the search box at the top of the page would get rid of perhaps 136,000 > searches per day on Opera sourced searches from from article display > (contrast this with 100-300 successful Add to Watchlist actions per day on > Opera). > > $ zcat /a/squid/archive/mobile/mobile-sampled-100.tsv.log-20140611.gz | > grep 'proxy=Opera' | grep '/w/index.php?search=' | cut -f12 | grep -c > '/wiki/' > 1362 > Search is usually a big deal on mobile phones/Opera. So it probably helps to keep that bar, just with some background image or CSS borders. Opera Mini has pretty good support for CSS. I recommend taking a look at m.facebook.com on Opera Mini 4 and 8, to see how they're dealing with our rendering. (Not that their UI applies to wikimedia, but that their heavy use of CSS shows what's possible.) > > $ zcat /a/squid/archive/mobile/mobile-sampled-100.tsv.log-20140611.gz | > grep 'proxy=Opera' | grep -c 'action=watch' > 1 > > -Adam > > -- Gautam Chandna | Director - Technical Partner Management | [email protected] | +47-4567-1789
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