Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Webfonts on Mobile

[Santhosh Thottingal]

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33176 has more details

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Webfonts on Mobile

[Amir E. Aharoni]

2011/12/14 Nasir Khan :
> Hi Amir,
>
> Thanks for informing us.
> I tried to use the BN Wikipedia from my  Samsung Galaxy (android 2.3.6),
> but the extension did not work on the android default browser or in the
> Opera Mobile, in Opera Mini it uses a different method to display the
> complex scripts, but the Webfont icon was not there.
> which version are you mentioning by the "old version of android" .

Currently WebFonts are not supposed to work in the mobile version of
the site ( http://bn.m.wikipedia.org/ ), although we really should
make them there.

It may work on the regular website, but it really depends on the exact
model of the phone and the version of OS and browsers. Even two phones
that use the same versions of Android may work differently here - it
seems like some vendors decide to disable support for web fonts for
some reason, although i don't really know the technical details.

Yesterday i managed to see mostly decent support for WebFonts on
Android 2.3.6 with the default Google browser, but your mileage may
vary.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Webfonts on Mobile

[Nasir Khan]

Hi Amir,

Thanks for informing us.
I tried to use the BN Wikipedia from my  Samsung Galaxy (android 2.3.6),
but the extension did not work on the android default browser or in the
Opera Mobile, in Opera Mini it uses a different method to display the
complex scripts, but the Webfont icon was not there.And I don't understand
which version are you mentioning by the "old version of android" .

thnaks
Nasir Khan
Wikimedia Bangladesh

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Amir E. Aharoni <
amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:

> [Was: Webfonts deployment on Indic Wikiprojects]
>
> 2011/12/14 Pradeep Mohandas :
> > Curious: Is anybody testing this for mobile web?
>
> I am doing my best to test it in any mobile phone and tablet upon
> which i come up, but we cannot systematically cover all the possible
> devices and mobile OS versions. That's where the community comes in -
> please test it in any device you can find and report bugs!
>
> The WebFonts extension is deployed for all supported languages in
> translatewiki.net and is updated several times a day with the newest
> changes. Please feel free to create WebFonts testing pages there.
>
> The short summary of my tests is that:
> * WebFonts are just ignored in older versions of Android, in the
> various Mobile Windows versions, in Symbian (Nokia) and in Blackberry.
> * WebFonts may work on the newest Android versions, but i did very
> little testing on that, and it changes between browsers.
> * WebFonts are loaded on Apple devices like iPhone and iPad, but not
> always rendered correctly.
> * WebFonts work well in devices that run a real GNU/Linux OS, such as
> Nokia N900. Very sadly, such devices are expensive and rare.
> (It's just criminal how Nokia markets them so weakly.)
> * My impression is that mobile Firefox (a.k.a Fennec),
> in general, has better support for i18n, like web fonts, fonts in
> general and right-to-left languages, but please test for yourself and
> don't take my word for it. (Disclaimer: I'm a
> volunteer Mozilla Rep.)
>
> > I have started trying to read ml.wiki on my cell pointing my phone
> > browser at ml.m.wikipedia.org and all I get are boxes right now.  I'm
> > using Opera Mini browser on a Nokia E63.
>
> WebFonts are not currently deployed on Malayalam and Tamil Wikimedia
> projects. These are probably the same squares you would see a week
> ago.
>
> WebFonts are deployed on translatewiki.net and on test.wikipedia.org,
> so again - please test them there as much as possible. You can also
> try testing in other languages of India.
>
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Webfonts on Mobile

[Amir E. Aharoni]

[Was: Webfonts deployment on Indic Wikiprojects]

2011/12/14 Pradeep Mohandas :
> Curious: Is anybody testing this for mobile web?

I am doing my best to test it in any mobile phone and tablet upon
which i come up, but we cannot systematically cover all the possible
devices and mobile OS versions. That's where the community comes in -
please test it in any device you can find and report bugs!

The WebFonts extension is deployed for all supported languages in
translatewiki.net and is updated several times a day with the newest
changes. Please feel free to create WebFonts testing pages there.

The short summary of my tests is that:
* WebFonts are just ignored in older versions of Android, in the
various Mobile Windows versions, in Symbian (Nokia) and in Blackberry.
* WebFonts may work on the newest Android versions, but i did very
little testing on that, and it changes between browsers.
* WebFonts are loaded on Apple devices like iPhone and iPad, but not
always rendered correctly.
* WebFonts work well in devices that run a real GNU/Linux OS, such as
Nokia N900. Very sadly, such devices are expensive and rare.
(It's just criminal how Nokia markets them so weakly.)
* My impression is that mobile Firefox (a.k.a Fennec),
in general, has better support for i18n, like web fonts, fonts in
general and right-to-left languages, but please test for yourself and
don't take my word for it. (Disclaimer: I'm a
volunteer Mozilla Rep.)

> I have started trying to read ml.wiki on my cell pointing my phone
> browser at ml.m.wikipedia.org and all I get are boxes right now.  I'm
> using Opera Mini browser on a Nokia E63.

WebFonts are not currently deployed on Malayalam and Tamil Wikimedia
projects. These are probably the same squares you would see a week
ago.

WebFonts are deployed on translatewiki.net and on test.wikipedia.org,
so again - please test them there as much as possible. You can also
try testing in other languages of India.

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Amir E. Aharoni
Wikimedia i18n team

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