On Jul 23, 2011, at 12:36 PM, Ross Peoples wrote:
> That thought had occurred to me about mobile phones vs tablets, but I didn't
> want to get too complex with this right away. However, you are correct that
> many sites have an iPhone/mobile site, and iPad site, and a desktop site. I
> think I'll try to expand my patch to replace request.is_mobile with
> request.browser_class, which could equal 'desktop', 'mobile', or 'tablet'. A
> request from an iPad would first check for 'tablet' views, then 'mobile'
> views, and finally 'desktop' views. How does that sound?
>
> As for the directory structure, I suppose we could do something like this:
At this stage I don't have enough of a sense of what structure makes the most
sense, so my comments aren't that well informed.
Might it make sense for the mobile/ &c subdirectories to live inside each
controller directory instead? Probably not, but I'm not sure of the reasons.
I also wonder if it might make sense to default to the appropriate top-level
view if a particular mobile view isn't available.
>
> views/
> _mobile/
> default/
> other_controller/
> _tablet/
> default/
> other_controller/
> default/
> other_controller/
>
> Or even put the devices into an main '_devices' folder:
>
> views/
> _devices/
> _mobile/
> ...
> _tablet/
> ...
> default/
> other_controller/
>
> The only issue I'm having with this is with the layouts. In order for this to
> work with byte compile, I actually had to turn the layout.html file into this:
>
> {{if is_mobile:}}
> <!-- All mobile HTML -->
> {{else:}}
> <!-- rest of original layout.html file -->
> {{pass}}
>
> I tried breaking it into desktop.html and mobile.html, then in layout.html:
> {{if is_mobile:}}
> {{include 'mobile.html'}}
> {{else:}}
> {{include 'desktop.html'}}
> {{pass}}
>
> Unfortunately, in the desktop.html or mobile.html, the {{include}} line that
> includes the view content is ignored, so I had to put everything into a
> single layout.html file.
I'm out of my depth here. Perhaps Massimo or someone else could comment on what
makes most sense here.
