I don't have an iPad but I did succeed to fake the User-Agent from the iPad and it worked fine.
Tho it does have a few usabilty issues to deal with: - Clicking the logo doesn't make a lot of sense. - Perhaps a fixed-positioned half-round arrow-button about a third down the screen would make more sense - Both ways (being able to show it and hide it again). - If we're going to make work if this, perhaps a dropdown menu could work aswell (one that has a scrollbar, so that the user can stay at the current position in the page). I think the first three wouldn't be hard. The latter would require to digg up the JavaScript event HTML5 and/or Apple iOS for a drag-movement. I'll try some scripting of my own later this week -- Greetings, Krinkle Op 15 jun 2010, om 19:13 heeft Magnus Manske het volgende geschreven: > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Cary Bass <c...@wikimedia.org> wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 06/15/2010 02:30 AM, Magnus Manske wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> since there's already several million iPad (and soon, other >>> tablet) users out there, I thought I'd try one in the Apple store >>> to see what Wikipedia looks/feels like. Generally, I think it's >>> very nice, with one exception. In "portrait" mode, the sidebar >>> takes up a lot of real estate. Especially when you scroll down a >>> long page, there's this annoying white bar on the left that serves >>> no real purpose. Also, IMHO, it destroys that "book feeling" that >>> would fit so well with the iPad. >>> >>> So I wrote a quick JS hack that /should/ hide the sidebar on the >>> iPad. Instead, it shows an icon in the top left corner that, when >>> "finger-clicked", will show the sidebar again, in case you really >>> want it. >>> >>> Demo (on Commons, because of the "withJS" option there): >>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page?withJS=MediaWiki:Adjust4iPad.js >>> >>> >>> >> Now, that should /only/ work on the iPad. Could someone please >> confirm >>> this and tell me if it's an improvement. On image pages it >>> probably doesn't matter a lot, but more text-laden pages like >>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Welcome?withJS=MediaWiki:Adjust4iPad.js >>> >>> >> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Reusing_content_outside_Wikimedia?withJS=MediaWiki:Adjust4iPad.js >>> it should make a visible difference. >>> >>> If it is as good as I suspect, we could use it by default on the >>> Wikipedias etc. There's lots of room for improvement; maybe the >>> sidebar could appear when switching to landscape mode (as in the >>> mail app). The usability experts may want to take a look :-) >> According to my local iPad <s>cultist</s> enthusiast, it works. > > Thanks! Any feedback on whether it's better or not? > > Magnus > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
