Hi Bryan, Ah, I was thinking of the 2 different mobile web editing experiences (not 2 different apps) for Android depending on form factor. My understanding is that tablets have VE enabled on mobile web now (I have yet to try it) while phones do not have VE enabled on mobile web yet.
Pine On Oct 8, 2015 12:56 PM, "Bryan Davis" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > > We currently have at least 6 channels, I believe: > > > > 1. Desktop Web > > 2. Mobile Web > > 3. Android phone > > 4. Android tablet > > I don't think that we have separate native apps for the phone and > tablet form factors. > > > 5. IPhone > > 6. Legacy Android phone > > > > I'm no expert on mobile developmemt, but perhaps WMF could experiment > with > > Google's idea on just one channel to start? > > AMP would only be appropriate for the mobile web channel from the list > above. Implementing it would be a matter of placing some sort of > translating proxy between MediaWiki and the requesting user agent that > downgraded the HTML produced by MediaWiki to AMP's restricted HTML > dialect. That sort of translation might be possible in MobileFrontend > but it would likely be accomplished much more easily using some other > tech stack that had good support for manipulation of HTML like a > node.js service. It might be an interesting prototype project for a > volunteer to experiment with a frontend app that consumed the RESTBase > provided Parsoid HTML (e.g. > https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/html/NOFX) and spit out AMP > compliant documents. > > The only other option really to produce alternate HTML from MediaWiki > would require swapping out the existing layer that translates an > article's wikitext to HTML with a version that spoke AMP instead. That > would be related to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114194. > > Bryan > -- > Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation <[email protected]> > [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software Engineer Boise, ID USA > irc: bd808 v:415.839.6885 x6855 >
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