Andrew as always I appreciate the thoughtful feedback. See below. James Wennmacher - Unicon 480.558.2420
On 11/03/2014 07:58 AM, Andrew Petro wrote: > James, > > Like I mentioned previously, this sounds like progress and I'm in > favor of it. > > Now digging into some of the details: > > JW> Of course the mUniversality view attempted to resolve this issue > differently, but one thing I think we don't want is multiple themes to > address the mobile experience. > > As I understand it, the way mUniversality addressed this differently > was to on initial render display the expanded menu of content in the > layout, ready for user navigation. Whereas Respondr looks to collapse > that navigation into a hamburger and take a best guess at what content > to show the user on initial render. > > Is it too much to hope that these are close enough that Repondr > becomes a natural upgrade path for current mUniversality adopters > under this change? JNW> I hope it is not too much to hope for :-). The other aspect of Respondr mobile view is to not have mobile-specific views in the portlets to reduce maintenance. I believe if we make the Respondr mobile view reasonably performant, it will naturally supercede mUniversality as generally superior. I suspect it will never be as performant (larger libraries, more CSS than the slimmer mUniversality views), but if we can reduce the overall performance difference (and improve the UI) I believe we can hit a threshold where it is acceptable to the community as the mobile web solution. > > I suspect that the show-the-upper-left-most-portlet algorithm is going > to end up being too arbitrary, but no need to address that now -- can > discover what options adopters need in place of that when the > upper-left approach proves too limiting. Current mUniversality > adopters really wanting the > show-the-navigation-menu-expanded-on-initial-render behavior, however, > could tweak this algorithm to render a responsive sitemap portlet by > fname, say, and viola! they have an mUniversality experience > implemented on Respondr. > > And then we get to retire some themes for uPortal 5 or so, right? :) JNW> Agreed, and I hope we can retire Universality/mUniversality. Interest and traction on Respondr so far seems good. My concern at this point is the mobile experience to help keep that interest and traction going. > > Andrew > > -- You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: [email protected] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
