On Sat, 07 Jan 2012 01:18:20 -0800, Quim Gil <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, I have installed the Mobile Frontend extension in my pet project > at http://espiral.org > > I only get to the mobile view manually, through the link at the > footer. Autodetection of mobile browsers doesn't seem to work or I > have done / missed something in my installation. I have got feedback > from a bunch of users with a bunch of devices, nobody got the mobile > view by default and all of them get it when visiting > http://en.wikipedia.org > > Something that looks different in my installation compared to > Wikipedia's is the lack of a redirect to a ".m." URL. I'm actually a > bit confused about this. It is mentioned briefly at > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MobileFrontend but it is not > clear to me whether this is something supposed to work automagically > when installing the extension or whether there is something I need to > do with the WURFL database, the LocalSettings.php, the web server... > > Other than this the extension works great presenting the mobile view > of pages. Thank you very much for your work! > I've been examining the MobileFrontend code myself since I too wanted to use it on a wiki. The MobileFrontend code is written 'very' WMF centric and uses a large number of hacks (which imho aren't acceptable of an extension purporting to be usable outside of WMF). It's a long way away from being usable on a normal wiki. -- ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name] _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
