Wikipedia:Village pump (technical): Difference between revisions

:* Secondly, forcing people to the "mobile" site can be "user-hostile". I usually use the mobile gateway on my iPhone because it loads faster and is more convenient for most lookups -- but it simply isn't as capable, and I sometimes need to be able to get at the main site. I'd much prefer we make the mobile-friendly site easier to find, but still keep it distinct and keep the regular site accessible.

:As for friendlier stylesheets, this is a bit in progress. As of a few weeks ago, we now have a cleaner style for devices that recognize the "handheld" CSS media type. (This mostly means those that *don't* accept "screen" styles.) You can switch this in for a single page manually by putting [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)?handheld=yes ?handheld=yes] on the URL. In theory we can switch that mode in for iPhones/iPod Touches as well, but... then it's stuck in and you can't turn it off. It's cleaner than no style, but it's still pretty awkward for searching and editing and such, so I'd prefer not to do that yet. (It also doesn't help much with bandwidth issues.) --[[User:Brion VIBBER|brion]] ([[User talk:Brion VIBBER|talk]]) 17:45, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

 

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