I, for one, would love to use Mobile Frontend to add mobile functionality on a wiki I run (at least to view, is it possible to add editing?). However, I don't have the option of defining a separate mobile sub-subdomain (my wiki is already on a subdomain) because of limitations set by my web host.
Matthew Bowker On Jan 9, 2012, at 12:03, 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 > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
