On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 11:48 AM, shelan Perera <[email protected]> wrote:
> According to the feedbacks i got from the devs and users i am really
> interested in the project on HTML5 mobile editing interface for
> bloggers.

Hi Shelan,

Thanks for pushing this conversation. I think this could be a good
project, and could be the feature that defines the 5.1 release (if I
can ever get 5.0 out the door ;-)


> According to the feedback i got from Dave there is a limitation on
> roller's rendering for a mobile rendering by default.This idea is at an
> abstract level so i am evaluating options so i can bundle mobile editing +
> displaying together if possible.

The problem, I believe, is that Roller does provide a way for a theme
to detect that a request is coming from a mobile device and offer
small format pages. There are probably a variety of ways to address
this.

One way, for example, would be to allow a theme to offer small format
pages for the key theme "action" pages of Weblog, Entry, Day, Search
Index and Tags Index. Roller's request mapper would detect that a
theme comes from a small device and would call those pages instead of
the built in pages.

Another way would be to give themes a way to detect a mobile device
and a way to forward to mobile theme pages. If a theme can detect that
the request comes from a mobile device, it could use logic inside
pages to change the appearance of the theme.

I think I like the first idea better. What do others think? What's the
best way to handle mobile themes? Maybe we should look at Wordpress
and Drupal to see how they handle this.

Either way, it would be nice to offer users a way to opt for the
mobile or non-mobile theme. Sometimes users on mobile devices like to
use the full-size theme.

Thanks,
- Dave



> In the mobile editing interface using html5 would be create , edit drafts
> and posts would be implemented and would be designed for convenient
> experience.I have some understanding that it should be optimized for user
> interactions with touch input.
>
> HTML has capabilities such as,
>
> Client side database , Application cache, Geo Location etc, Most of the
> features leverage its capability of offline features which could
> be beneficial vastly in Roller like blogger applications where users tend to
> read , edit content.
>
> I would like to get some help , feedbacks and suggestions from the community
> to nourish the idea and make it more useful for roller.
>
> Thank you
>
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