Hoi,
I would REALLY love to see MobileFrontend work with Wiktionary, Wikibooks,
Wikisource. The books for instance may make use of the book readers that
exists on mobiles / pads.. There is a world outside of Wikipedia
Thanks,
Gerard
On 9 January 2012 20:03, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote:
> Quick questions:
>
> * Does anybody actually want to use MobileFrontend to implement a
> feature-phone gateway on other sites?
>
> If so, it may be worth doing some of that cleanup to make things more
> portable.
>
> Note that I'd also love to kill the "m." stuff as it's problematic in a
> number of ways, so I wouldn't worry too much about stuff related to
> mobile-specific URLs.
>
>
> * Do people intend primarily to make the wiki's user interface more
> friendly to modern smartphones, without caring about feature phones?
>
> If so, then moving to the next generation beyond our current MobileFrontend
> is probably a better use of energy. MobileFrontend's architecture is keyed
> on basically being like a proxy, so it can produce output tuned to phones
> with very limited capabilities without the rest of MediaWiki needing to
> worry about how those things work.
>
> This isn't really what we want for smartphones and tablets in the future;
> they should instead get the same interface and capabilities as the desktop
> provides, but the interface should tune itself for small or large screens,
> touch-centric or mouse-centric layouts. In the future this won't involve
> the MobileFrontend extension at all, it'll just be in our core CSS & JS
> code's behavior.
>
>
> -- brion
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