On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Arthur Richards aricha...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
To follow up on this, I actually made some additional changes to how
useformat works to simplify manually switching between mobile and desktop
views which had been suggested by Brion Vibber. Take a look at:
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Asher Feldman afeld...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Replacing this with a desktop view that leaves users permanently
accessing the desktop site via m. isn't suitable for our environment. It
may make sense for smaller sites without a dedicated mobile namespace but
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Brion Vibber br...@pobox.com wrote:
Let's please kill the m. domain.
IMO desktop and mobile users should use the same URLs; there should be sane
device detection; and an easy override in both directions available at all
times.
This is blocked on migrating
This is blocked on migrating text from squid to varnish which is likely at
least a few months off. Until then, MobileFrontend needs to continue
supporting the current production reality.
Asher, thanks for the response. I didn't realize the functionality was so
crucial. I'll go ahead and add
On second thought - Asher, shouldn't setting the 'Vary' header to 'Cookie'
be sufficient to prevent cache pollution/fragmentation? MobileFrontend
already does this. If, however, that is it not the case, would it be
possible to configure the squids to respond to the 'mf_useformat=desktop'
cookie in
Asher and I just had a chat in #wikimedia-mobile. We agreed to have the
Squids handle the new cookie in the same way they handle the old
'stopMobileRedirect' cookie (rather than add back the old
'permanently disable mobile view' functionality). I'm going to also make
some minor tweaks to how
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Arthur Richards aricha...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Asher and I just had a chat in #wikimedia-mobile. We agreed to have the
Squids handle the new cookie in the same way they handle the old
'stopMobileRedirect' cookie (rather than add back the old
'permanently
To follow up on this, I actually made some additional changes to how
useformat works to simplify manually switching between mobile and desktop
views which had been suggested by Brion Vibber. Take a look at:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/113865
This removes the Permanently
Over the last couple of weeks, I've taken a few steps to remove some of the
WMF-specific bits of the MobileFrontend code base:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34144
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34145
Also, now if you view an article with useformat=mobile in the
