https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25558
Hampton Catlin <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|[email protected] |[email protected] --- Comment #1 from Hampton Catlin <[email protected]> 2010-10-18 10:45:45 UTC --- MZ, its great to see someone standing up and taking on this huge project that so many feel so passionately about. I can't wait for the day when I can switch off the mobile site. Goodluck on the new project you're starting! Oh, a couple notes on things that will make it hard to get into the current architecture (and no one ever seems to think of). Right now, each path comes back with a single resulting HTML page. Except, on mobile, we have up to 20 different pages that might come back as determined by the user agent. Some of them are 'similar' pages to each other (aka, most webkit style browsers get something similar with only small tweaks) and others are entirely different formats. That doesn't mean that you can't use PHP for it. Ruby presents no advantages there. But, it does mean that its extremely difficult to use the mainline wikipedia architecture as its kind of a 'simple case' setup. Oh right, and a ton of different mobile applications (and other third party applications) use the software's API. Its the API that our native phone apps use and others have taken to use it. So, most of the popular native phone apps on all platforms use the current site's API. Its pretty simple, but you have to make sure that you either communicate updates with all of them or mimic the current API as to not seriously break stuff. Goodluck on the "Big Re-Write!" -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
