So I personally have no idea how to fix this with style sheets but I'm pretty sure that's how it gets fixed. Ian had mentioned something in fedora-admin but I'm not sure if any among us has any experience with making mobile style sheets. Anyone out there? - Mike On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Fedora Infrastructure wrote: > #1774: Fedora Wiki's stylesheet is screwey on small screen high DPI devices > ---------------------+------------------------------------------------------ > Reporter: ynemoy | Owner: webmaster > Type: bug | Status: new > Priority: major | Milestone: > Component: General | Version: > Severity: Normal | Keywords: > ---------------------+------------------------------------------------------ > = phenomenon = > > Multiple issues here: Tables go beyond the page but the page isn't told > about being wider than the screen, so horizontal scrolling is not > possible. Embedded pictures and headers aren't formatted properly so text > can flow around it, even in extreme situations. The sidebar takes up too > much space at high DPIs leaving only half the page for the body. > > In the above order: > http://ynemoy.fedorapeople.org/wikixofail/IMAG0016.jpg > http://ynemoy.fedorapeople.org/wikixofail/IMAG0018.jpg > > http://ynemoy.fedorapeople.org/wikixofail/IMAG0013.jpg > > http://ynemoy.fedorapeople.org/wikixofail/IMAG0014.jpg > http://ynemoy.fedorapeople.org/wikixofail/IMAG0015.jpg > > Resizing the text and page zoom fixes some problems, but my opinion is > that this is non obvious to many people. > > http://ynemoy.fedorapeople.org/wikixofail/IMAG0017.jpg > > = reason = > > I'm not much of a CSS guy, but i have a few ideas. First of all, the > sidebar is strictly set to a hard size in relation to the rest of the > page. Second of all, horizontal scrolling is (and rightly so) disabled at > all costs. Third of all, something is not set properly when formatting > embedded inline pictures, so that the sidebar can wrap around it, or so > that it's left justified instead of right justified so it runs off the > page rather than running into the sidebar. > > = recommendation = > > Wikipedia has a pretty decent mobile interface that works very nicely on > the Android devices, and presumably on others as well. It avoids using a > sidebar and TOC by replacing it with expandable fields. I think that at > least having that stylesheet available would be a start. The tricky part > is detecting the actual dimensions *and* DPI of a screen and switching to > the appropriate stylesheet. In this particular example, the screenshots > were taken on an XO using mostly stock settings and Firefox. > > Another and more costly and time consuming solution is to redesign the > page more comprehensively so that it is a general purpose page for both > mobile, small screen, and normal devices. > > -- > Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1774> > Fedora Infrastructure <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure> > Fedora Infrastructure Project for Bugs, feature requests and access to our source code. > > -- > Fedora-websites-list mailing list > Fedora-websites-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-websites-list > -- Fedora-websites-list mailing list Fedora-websites-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-websites-list
