On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Håkon Wium Lie <howc...@opera.com> wrote: > Also sprach Ashar Voultoiz: > > > Our javascript tests are being run under TestSwarm [1] and we currently > > cover up most desktop browsers (thanks brion). > > > > According to our squids stats [2], most of Wikimedia mobile traffic > > comes from the following browsers (sorted by popularity): > > - Safari > > - Android > > - Opera > > - Mozilla > > - Blackberry > > > > * Safari, Opera & Mozilla for mobile : they are probably mostly the same > > as the desktop version. I have not found emulators for them. > > Opera comes in two flavors for mobile devices: Opera Mini and Opera > Mobile. Opera Mobile is, indeed, close to the desktop version in the > sense that it runs the same display, javascript engine etc. on the > device. > > Opera Mini runs these engines in server parks in the fixed network and > tranfers a binary representation to a small viewer on the device. We > currently process around 60 billion pages per month and Wikipedia is > typically in the top 10 lists in the top 20 countries we publish > statistics for: > > http://www.opera.com/smw/2011/05/ > > In the test swarm link you sent, Opera 10 and 11 are listed, but > not Opera Mini (which is currently at version 6). Could it be that > your sniffer doesn't pick up Opera Mini users? > > http://toolserver.org/~krinkle/testswarm/ > > Here a sample UA string from a recent version of Opera Mini: > > Opera/9.80 (Android; Opera Mini/6.24556/25.657; U; en) Presto/2.5.25 > Version/10.54 > > And here's the Opera Mini emulator: > > http://www.opera.com/mobile/demo/ > > While Wikipedia remains popular with Opera Mini users, there is a > technical problem which limits the user experience. Wikipedia uses > JavaScript to unfold sections in articles. Alas, executing JavaScript > requires a rountrip to the server (the Opera Mini server, that is) > which takes time and costs money. It would be better if articles were > unfolded by default for Opera Mini users.
Open bug already in place .. any takers? https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29517 --tomasz _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
