A thought would be to make the mobile device use the wiki's print stylesheet. It would be quite vanilla and primarily just text but it should be usable for a mobile user. On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > -- Fedora-websites-list mailing list Fedora-websites-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-websites-list
