On 05.06.2012, 16:16 Jon wrote: > I still think inline styles are going to continue causing problems on > the mobile site as many people creating articles may only me thinking > in terms of how a page will look in desktop rather than mobile. > Although I personally would turn them off on the mobile website I seem > to be in a minority.
> I spoke to several people including Gabriel Wicke and Brion Vibber on > this subject at the Berlin hackathon and I think possibly the best way > we as a community can address this is to identify the problems on a > case by case basis. > To do this I've created a page [1] the idea being that community > members can report/identify situations where inline styles don't work > on the mobile site, document them and provide a suggested resolution. > These situations can then be linked to a list of effected pages that > require cleaning up, for example [2]. These lists can be generated > using Gabriel's dumpGrepper.js [3]. For the time being I've just run a > grep on English Wikipedia but depending on whether this is successful > I'll branch out to other languages > Hopefully this will result in some sort of reference page for how to > write styles that work well on both mobile and desktop. I think we should strive to leave HTML transformation behind - for non-WAP devices we could rely on CSS only. DOM parsing made a lot of sense at the time of the Ruby gateway which had to parse HTML for screen-scraping anyway. However, now by avoiding HTML parsing we could: * Avoid performance reduction for mobile requests * Make out output more uniform * Stop relying on that unsalvageable piece of crap called libxml For specific cases when there's a lot of desktop HTML that doesn't need to be shown to mobile users at all, we could tweak the parser to ouptut mobile-specific HTML, but this should be restricted to minimum. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
