Yeh, I envisioned search might be a link at the top, but we can iterate on that. A lot of our traffic is from search results, so I think the more important function is reading, but we definitely should provide a search function.
I think any phone which has a screen res of around 240px but media query support is doomed - maybe some old Nokia phones. Support of modern devices is pretty good across the board http://caniuse.com/css-mediaqueries On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Gautam Chandna <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > -- Jon Robson * http://jonrobson.me.uk * https://www.facebook.com/jonrobson * @rakugojon _______________________________________________ Mobile-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l
