On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:44 AM, James Forrester <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 21 October 2014 16:54, Jon Robson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> The iPhone 6+ is currently being treated as a mobile device.
>> This is because the thresholds for window.innerWidth and
>> window.innerHeight are 414px by 736px
>>
>> Currently we invoke tablet mode only when one of those values is over
>> 768px.
>>
>> It's hard to get an idea of the sort of traffic we get from iPhone 6+
>> as it doesn't have its own unique user agent.
>>
>> I looked on James's iPhone 6 and I can confirm that the site generally
>> renders well on it in tablet mode. Once strange thing I noticed
>> however is that if in landscape mode, clicking edit gives you the
>> option of VisualEditor however if you click edit in portrait mode you
>> get wikitext editor with no VE option. When in landscape mode and
>> switching to portrait mode, you stay in VisualEditor but the interface
>> becomes too cluttered. We'd need to make some optimisations to the
>> toolbar in conjunction to enabling tablet mode on an iPhone 6+
>>
>> See http://imgur.com/JsOOM2K to see how it currently looks in portrait
>> mode.
>>
>> Proposed actions:
>> * Optimise the text 'Editing' next to the title in VE mobile mode
>>
>
> ​Yeah, this is a little janky.​
>
>
>> * Optimise the VE toolbar for display on a 320px screen - I would
>> suggest hiding the bold and italic buttons via media queries
>>
>
> ​Or pushing them into a single button with a text styling menu, the way
> it's done on desktop (where there's way more space)?​
>
>
>> * Drop threshold from 768px to 736px
>>
>
> ​Works for me.​
>

Yeah, me too. I think we should just drop the threshold for now and revisit
this later (after we've gotten a better handle on VE performance issues,
etc.). Card in Trello for next sprint:
https://trello.com/c/ishF3xyx/72-drop-tablet-thresholds. Can someone
estimate pretty please? :)

-- 
Maryana Pinchuk
Product Manager, Wikimedia Foundation
wikimediafoundation.org
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