I realized I should be clear that the "rebooted apps" I mention are "the future Wikipedia mobile app"s mentioned earlier in the thread. Sorry if any confusion.
-Adam On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Adam Baso <[email protected]> wrote: > +mobile-l > > Greetings. Rupert, an update! > > The rebooted Android (Android 2.3+) and iOS (iOS 6+) apps will have > Wikipedia Zero flourishes built into them, making it possible for the user > to know whether the app access is free of data usage charges. The rebooted > apps are tentatively slated for store submission at the end of the month. > The flourishes will hinge on each operator's zero-rating of HTTPS. > > Likewise, HTTPS contributory features are about to be introduced on the > Wikipedia Zero mobile web experience as well for operators that zero-rate > HTTPS. > > WMF is starting the work with partner operators to add support for > zero-rating of HTTPS. There will be, at least, technical hurdles > (networking equipment architecture varies) in this transition, but it's > underway! Indeed, we have some carriers that have noted support for HTTPS > zero-rating already. > > I'm very much grateful to Brion, Yuvi, and Monte for their assistance > while I added code to the Android and iOS platforms, and am happy to get to > work with them more while putting final touches in place this month. Props > to Faidon, Mark, and Brandon in Ops Engineering as well on helping us > overcome some rather non-trivial hurdles in order to retain good > performance and maintainability while adding HTTPS support. > > -Adam > > > On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 8:19 AM, Adam Baso <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Rupert, I saw your question regarding Wikipedia Zero. Wikipedia Zero is >> > currently targeted for the mobile web, but I'll take this question back >> to >> > the business team as to whether we'd be able to support zero-rating of >> apps >> > traffic at some point in the future, at least in locales where moderate >> > bandwidth is available. >> > >> >> I think that once the zero-rating is switched to support HTTPS by using >> IP-based instead of Deep Packet Inspection-based HTTP sniffing, ISP >> partners wouldn't actually be able to distinguish between mobile web and >> mobile apps content unless we actively choose to make them use separate >> IPs >> and domain names. >> >> Especially if, as we think we're going to, the future Wikipedia mobile app >> will consist mostly of native code widgets and modules that plug into the >> web site embedded in a web control... it'll be loading mostly the same web >> pages from the same servers, but running a different mix of JavaScript. >> >> -- 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
