2011/11/25 Tomasz Finc <tf...@wikimedia.org>: > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 2:41 AM, Strainu <strain...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I've logged this as an enhancement: >> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32597 >> > > Thanks! > > >> It's a shame we have to go through some not-so-nice hacks to make the >> content for mobiles different than the one for desktops. Perhaps the >> architecture is too iPhone/American oriented? Not all mobile users >> > > Are XML DOM parsers that American and iPhone centric? I sure hope not as > the rest of the Internet is going to have to be informed ...
Somehow, I find myself unable to laugh at that joke. You quoted that out of context, the question goes together with the following phrases. Plus, the XML DOM parser is the implementation of the architectural decision, which was to parse the HTML and not the wikitext. > > >> have unlimited traffic. Many people around me disable images on mobile >> internet. >> > > Yup, and thats why we've had the option to disable images for many months > now. It lowered the payload by half. Lots of people use it. If you see > other data heavy features on pages that we can get rid of then please file > a bug. Were always eager to lower our payload. Disabling images by the user is cool, but it leaves behind references to images, which might make the text sound a little awkward. All images in the ro.wp main page are referenced in the text. Removing them cripples the page. This is why we had a custom webpage for mobile and we would like to be able to use that as we go forward. > > Hope you will give that some serious thought when the time comes. >> > > We already have and would love to drop it down even more. Next interesting > step would actually be to load sections only when people want them. That'll > drop down the payload even more. > > Turn on the webkit network profiler and let us know whats really slowing us > down. Isn't webkit specific to the iPhone? I was not aware it was available on normal platforms. As to suggestions on how to drop the load, it's the same as above: let the users do the micromanagement of the mobile sites, they're much better than you (i.e the WMF, not you personally) at this. Going back to the original issue, is there any other way to display something else for the mobile site than including the divs on the main page and making them invisible from the desktop site by CSS and JS? This is what I called "an ugly hack" because it might very well fail for text browsers or screen readers. Thanks, Strainu _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
