Thanks for this Adam. A few questions.

On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Adam Baso <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi there -
>
> A lot of people on Wikipedia Zero use browsers ("User Agents", or "UAs" for
> short) incompatible with site JavaScript [1]. We want to ensure that
> critical functionality is basically functional for these people, and  we've
> been tracking findings at
> https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Lower_end_devices_checkup.
>
> Thus far, we've re-reviewed Search [2] and Login/Account Creation [3], and
> we'll be going over the other ones over the next several sprints.
>
> I just added some screenshots from Opera Mini to the two Trello cards below.
> To replicate Opera Mini behavior for oneself, if you don't already have it,
> you can install Opera Mini on a device like an Android or iOS device. Then
> set the app's mode to "Opera Mini" mode. Depending on your OS, you may or
> may not need to toggle this "Opera Mini" setting; it might be on by default.
> You can also use the emulator as described on the Wikipedia Zero tech page
> [4].
>
> -Adam
>
> [1]
> https://git.wikimedia.org/blob/mediawiki%2Fcore.git/09c55592a73544cc21e002f229686d17806686ba/resources%2Fsrc%2Fstartup.js#L40
> This shows JavaScript UAs for which it's known that the JavaScript
> capabilities are likely insufficient for a number of JavaScript features,
> and thus the ResourceLoader technology instructs the UA to not commence with
> further JavaScript loading. There are also other UAs with no JavaScript
> support or with broken JavaScript implementations.
> [2]
> https://trello.com/c/blWoHdk8/1-improve-special-search-for-lower-end-device-users
> Incidentally, there's currently a regression making it impossible to enter
> searches, at least on the Android and iOS Opera Mini clients I tested.

Please can you track this regression on bugzilla with replication
instructions? I haven't heard about this bug and it sounds like
something that could easily be taken care of. A trello card seems
overkill.

>
> [3]
> https://trello.com/c/0kKBcmoD/2-improve-login-and-account-creation-experience-for-lower-end-device-users
> Note: On non-HTML5 browsers, the "placeholder" attribute is not supported.
>
> [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero#Tools


Yeh there is a bug [1] and it's fixed in alpha. We'll have to find a
way of accelerating the alpha login form into stable for opera mini
users as unfortunately we hit some unexpected roadblocks around the
login form.

[1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68758

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