https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31240
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Bug #: 31240
Summary: Android browsers render content poorly when viewing
desktop view with .m
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: any
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: MobileFrontend
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
I'm the Product Manager responsible for the Android Browser and during some
recent testing of how top sites perform we've noticed a peculiarity with
Wikipedia which means some users don't get the best experience on Android
devices. I think there's a way to fix this, which I hope won't be too
difficult or onerous to implement.
A quick example - let's consider the article at
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA
When a user visits that URL on an Android phone they are automatically
served the mobile version - that's the good news. The problem arises,
however, when such a user clicks to "View on regular wikipedia" - the
regular wikipedia page is poorly formatted on the screen.
This isn't anything to do the content you serve (which is just fine) - it's
caused by the .m. in the hostname and down to a workaround we added to the
browser some time ago.
Previous versions of the Android browser included logic designed to control
the viewport for pages served from what looked like mobile-specific domains
(e.g. en.m.wikipedia.org - we take the .m. to signify mobile) by forcing it
to be the same as the width of the device's screen. This means that when an
Android device receives desktop-style HTML from an m.blah.net host (for
example), even though the browser can render it, our workaround kicks in and
the result is almost always a poorly-formatted page for the user.
Although we plan to remove this logic from the next Android release there
are still many millions of Android-using Wikipedia fans who would get a
better experience if Wikipedia were to only serve desktop pages from
en.wikipedia.org rather than from (e.g.) en.m.wikipedia.org.
We would really appreciate you considering and implementing this change to
improve the user experience of Wikipedia on Android devices.
If you have any questions, or if anything in my mail is unclear, please
don't hesitate to contact me.
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