Hi Martin - I got the tar.gz and will try to install on my server, but in the meantime, do you have a site running this now? I'd like to give a look-see first.
Thanks....Keith On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Martin Higham <mar...@ocastalabs.com>wrote: > I have finally completed version 1 of this plugin and tidied it up so that > others can take a look and try it. My objective with this plugin was to > produce xhtml/mp markup for displaying StatusNet sites on low, medium and > high end mobile phones. The output from this plugin scores well on the Dot > Mobi mobile ready tests (http://mobiready.com). > The code for the plugin can be found in my repository on gitorious in the > 0.8.x-mobileplugin branch ( > http://gitorious.org/~martinh/statusnet/martinhs-clone/commits/0.8.x-mobileplugin<http://gitorious.org/%7Emartinh/statusnet/martinhs-clone/commits/0.8.x-mobileplugin>). > This branch includes the plugin and all of the changes I had to make to the > StatusNet core code. Most of these changes are captured in merge request > #1671. My other changes are to reduce the number of list items per page to > reduce the page size. > > If you take the complete tar there are some additional steps required to > configure it > > 1. Add the following lines config.php to enable the plugin > require_once('local/xhtmlmp.php'); > XHTMLMPoutput = new XHTMLMPoutput(); > > 2. Copy the xhtmlmp.css file to your configured theme css folder. > 3. Enable cache-control headers in Apache for css and images by adding the > following lines to the .htaccess file. While this isn't compulsory it does > improve handset performance over GPRS. > > <FilesMatch "\.(ico|pdf|flv|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|js|css|swf)$"> > Header set Cache-Control "max-age=172800, public" > </FilesMatch> > > 4. Optionally change the css and small logo files. The location of the > small logo and icons is configured at the top of the xhtmlmp.php code. > > This plugin is not perfect. > > There are still issues with handsets that have severe memory limitations > e.g. the Motorola V3. The page size is still too large. In order to reduce > this further there are two changes I would like to see. Status Net should > use relative URLs where possible. Given the high number of links and images > within a page this will significantly reduce page sizes. The other is to > find a way to remove line endings and tabs from the markup before sending to > the browser. While the XMLWriter indent control does this it also removes > other characters that affect the visual look of the page. > > The dot mobi compliance tests clearly show room for improvement too > although generally minor ones. The only failure in the tests is the use of > px measures within the style sheet. > > Unless you have access to many handsets I would not recommend making > changes to the CSS file beyond colour. CSS support is the most flakey part > of handset browser implementations. It took me several days of testing and > changing before finding a style-sheet that worked across a wide range of > browsers. The xhtmlmp.css file has no tabs or line ends. I realise this > makes it hard to read, but it does reduce the transmitted file size quite > considerably. While the display attribute is not guaranteed to work on all > handset browsers its use dramatically improves the look of the site on > browsers that do, so I have used it sparingly. > > My initial notes on the implementation can be read on the wiki ( > http://status.net/wiki/ObservationsOnMobile ). Further notes can be found > in the xhtmlmp.php file. > > While I have tested this across a number of different handsets I would be > interested in hearing feedback from your experiences. > > Martin > > > > _______________________________________________ > StatusNet-dev mailing list > StatusNet-dev@lists.status.net > http://lists.status.net/mailman/listinfo/statusnet-dev > -- Keith Erskine Padpaw, Inc. tel: +1 978 566 9432
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