The following link outlines a way to add the simple device detection
to the current Mobile Frontend extension.

https://raw.github.com/gist/1590648/86abdf93a99876c609862b28f8dae1b488bded03/MobileFrontend.php

I'll work on a more complete solution that utilizes WURFL and post that later.

— Patrick

On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Daniel Friesen
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I've heard of some sites using a pattern like /m/ for their mobile site.
> We can probably support that option as well.
>
> --
> ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]
>
> On Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:00:45 -0800, User:Matthewrbowker
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I, for one, would love to use Mobile Frontend to add mobile
>> functionality on a wiki I run (at least to view, is it possible to add
>> editing?).  However, I don't have the option of defining a separate
>> mobile sub-subdomain (my wiki is already on a subdomain) because of
>> limitations set by my web host.
>>
>> Matthew Bowker
>>
>> On Jan 9, 2012, at 12:03, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Quick questions:
>>>
>>> * Does anybody actually want to use MobileFrontend to implement a
>>> feature-phone gateway on other sites?
>>>
>>> If so, it may be worth doing some of that cleanup to make things more
>>> portable.
>>>
>>> Note that I'd also love to kill the "m." stuff as it's problematic in a
>>> number of ways, so I wouldn't worry too much about stuff related to
>>> mobile-specific URLs.
>>>
>>>
>>> * Do people intend primarily to make the wiki's user interface more
>>> friendly to modern smartphones, without caring about feature phones?
>>>
>>> If so, then moving to the next generation beyond our current
>>> MobileFrontend
>>> is probably a better use of energy. MobileFrontend's architecture is
>>> keyed
>>> on basically being like a proxy, so it can produce output tuned to
>>> phones
>>> with very limited capabilities without the rest of MediaWiki needing to
>>> worry about how those things work.
>>>
>>> This isn't really what we want for smartphones and tablets in the
>>> future;
>>> they should instead get the same interface and capabilities as the
>>> desktop
>>> provides, but the interface should tune itself for small or large
>>> screens,
>>> touch-centric or mouse-centric layouts. In the future this won't involve
>>> the MobileFrontend extension at all, it'll just be in our core CSS & JS
>>> code's behavior.
>>>
>>>
>>> -- brion
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