I've heard of some sites using a pattern like /m/ for their mobile site.  
We can probably support that option as well.

-- 
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]

On Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:00:45 -0800, User:Matthewrbowker  
<[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
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