On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Arthur Richards <[email protected]>wrote:
> To follow up on this, I actually made some additional changes to how > "useformat" works to simplify manually switching between mobile and desktop > views which had been suggested by Brion Vibber. Take a look at: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/113865 > > This removes the "Permanently disable mobile view" text (broken for anyone > other than the WMF anyway) and makes it so accessing the site with > "useformat=mobile" in the URL (eg by clicking 'Mobile view' at the bottom > of any page on a site with MobileFrontend enabled) will set a cookie which > will ensure that you see the mobile view until either the cookie expires or > you explicitly switch back to desktop view. > It looks like "permanently disable mobile view" is broken completely as of last weeks mobilefrontend deployment. So its impossible to see how its supposed to behave currently, but a key part of it for wikipedia is that it takes you off the m site and disables squid's mobile redirection via the "stopMobileRedirect=true" cookie. It actually disables use of the .m. site as the text implies, not just disabling the mobilefrontend dom rewrite that you get when viewing the desktop version of a single article, which keeps you on the mobile site. Replacing this with a "desktop view" that leaves users permanently accessing the desktop site via m. isn't suitable for our environment. It may make sense for smaller sites without a dedicated mobile namespace but even in that case, some care is needed to ensure that any frontend caching dosen't get inadvertently polluted or unduly fragmented. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
