User "Brion VIBBER" posted a comment on MediaWiki.r103254. Full URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/103254#c26089 Commit summary:
tweaks & more in readme Comment: A few things: * jQuery doesn't actually make mobile browsers explode like they've been drizzled in C4. :) * You can scale the amount of stuff you load based on what you expect to use. ** If you want to whine about loading unused HTML, you'll be HORRIFIED at our current http://en.m.wikipedia.org/ mobile interface, which loads up ENTIRE ARTICLES and then collapses ALL BUT THE FIRST SECTION, even if you never open up and read any of them! That's something we want to avoid more aggressively, and fixing that would easily overpower the "weight" of a few menu items (that are mostly still going to be there, but in a menu) * "phones" and "tablets" often have the same CPUs, RAM, and operating system as each other; if the HTML's too heavy for phones it's too heavy for tablets. If it's not too heavy for tablets, conversely it's not necessarily too heavy for phones. * Loading speeds (eg are you stuck on a high-latency 2g/3g/4g mobile network?) are entirely distinct from mobile/tablet/desktop interface form factors (size, availability of touchscreen vs keyboard & mouse input, expected multi & single-tasking behavior). A mobile phone or tablet may be on a highly-latent, flaky mobile network or it may be on wifi connected to a beautiful fiber connection. A laptop may be on that beautiful fiber connection, or it may be on a 3g dongle, MiFi, or tethered phone. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-CodeReview mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-codereview
