On Jan 7, 2012, at 2:21 AM, "Daniel Friesen" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, 07 Jan 2012 01:18:20 -0800, Quim Gil <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, I have installed the Mobile Frontend extension in my pet project >> at http://espiral.org >> >> I only get to the mobile view manually, through the link at the >> footer. Autodetection of mobile browsers doesn't seem to work or I >> have done / missed something in my installation. I have got feedback >> from a bunch of users with a bunch of devices, nobody got the mobile >> view by default and all of them get it when visiting >> http://en.wikipedia.org >> >> Something that looks different in my installation compared to >> Wikipedia's is the lack of a redirect to a ".m." URL. I'm actually a >> bit confused about this. It is mentioned briefly at >> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MobileFrontend but it is not >> clear to me whether this is something supposed to work automagically >> when installing the extension or whether there is something I need to >> do with the WURFL database, the LocalSettings.php, the web server... >> >> Other than this the extension works great presenting the mobile view >> of pages. Thank you very much for your work! >> > > I've been examining the MobileFrontend code myself since I too wanted to > use it on a wiki. The MobileFrontend code is written 'very' WMF centric > and uses a large number of hacks (which imho aren't acceptable of an > extension purporting to be usable outside of WMF). It's a long way away > from being usable on a normal wiki. How so? What would you change? > > -- > ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name] > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
