> On 11 May 2016, at 22:07, James Forrester <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 11 May 2016 at 12:50, Michael Peel <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Isn't it time to start moving to responsive mediawiki templates ( >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsive_web_design), rather than having >> a separate mobile interface/URL? > > >> For a practical example, see the BBC News website ( >> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news), which is the same website on all devices, it >> just rescales the content/navigation/layout to suit the device. (Try >> resizing your web browser on your computer to the size of a mobile web >> browser to see what I mean.) >> > > Hey Mike, > > I think you're confusing two things – a single skin with responsive design > for all users on all devices, which is a long-term ambition, but for the > Reading department to talk about :-) – and responsive templates for > content, which we're working on in terms of scoped styling for templates > through TemplateStyles ( > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TemplateStyles, though by "we" I > mostly mean Coren as a volunteer developer). This second one is going > through security review right now, but once that's complete we'll enable it > for testing and gradual roll-out. > > Scoped styling of templates will let template authors make their templates > work on any sized device, which will massively improve the terrible > experience from templates like infoboxes, navboxes, amboxes, and especially > one-off templates like those used by the Signpost. However, it'll need a > concerted effort from all of us to re-write and improve all the thousands > of templates across our hundreds of wikis to make this a reality. It > requires judgement, æsthetics and expertise, and so isn't something that > can be done automatically by software. It's a big effort, but it's going to > be worth it. :-)
When I said templates here I meant skins - sorry for using confusing/outdated terminology (back when I was last developing website skins, they were called templates!). It's great to hear that they're being worked on - mediawiki template styles are definitely something that need improving in the near future (hopefully along with table styles, since they are currently horribly displayed on mobiles). I'm hoping that having a responsive skin for the webpages isn't too far off, though? Thanks, Mike _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
