The Wikipedia mobile site is being made mobile first using responsive design techniques. The plan is for it to eventually mature into a responsive Athena skin that can also be used on desktop. On Jul 27, 2012 4:24 AM, "Tei" <oscar.vi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 27 July 2012 12:53, Peter Coombe <thewub.w...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > This is one of the aims of the planned 'Athena' skin: > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Athena > > > > Pete / the wub > > Very interesting. Looks very good already. > > > On 27 July 2012 12:01, John Elliot <j...@jj5.net> wrote: > > Are there any initiatives in the MediaWiki community for a MediaWiki > > theme that supports 'responsive design' [1] -- where content is properly > > laid out in an accessible form on all manner of devices including > > desktops and smart phones? > > > > [1] http://www.alistapart.com/articles/responsive-web-design/ > > > > Ouch. This website is aligned to the left, and designed for a fixed > width of 1024px. > > *reads content* > > Yet again, we remember that HTML is liquid. Is supposed to be, wen is > made fixed, is because compromises. > > > On 27 July 2012 12:08, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 27 July 2012 11:01, John Elliot <j...@jj5.net> wrote: > > > >> Are there any initiatives in the MediaWiki community for a MediaWiki > >> theme that supports 'responsive design' [1] -- where content is properly > >> laid out in an accessible form on all manner of devices including > >> desktops and smart phones? > >> [1] http://www.alistapart.com/articles/responsive-web-design/ > > > > > > http://blog.tommorris.org/post/21073443312/introducing-awfulness-js > > > > HTML 3.2 is looking better every day ... > > Infinite scrolling is not always evil. > > If you need to show a PDF document as a list of 200 high resolution > JPG files. You can make the page height the resulting height if all > the jpg where downloaded. But only download the JPG the user is > looking at. > If you try the naive approach,and create a html that links with <img> > all the 700KB jpg files, the page will chocke for most users, because > will ask for too much bandwidth too quick. And maybe the users only > need to look at the first page, to confirm is interesting (maybe are > books, and is the wrong book, or in the wrong language ). > > http://es.scribd.com/doc/6457786/Godel-Escher-Bach-by-Douglas-R-Hofstadter- > > By making a document become a computer program, we probably lose the > ability to garantee it will end rendering before the end of the > existence of the universe. But is often a good tradeoff. > > > -- > -- > ℱin del ℳensaje. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
