[arch-general] [RFC] Make Archlinux websites mobile friendly
I think it would be nice to have Arch websites mobile friendly, so that it can be viewed comfortably on any devices with different screen size. For starting point, let's make the wiki, which is the main source of information, mobile friendly. It's just a matter of adding meta viewport tag and another CSS file(s) for smaller screen sizes.
On 17.03.2017 16:57, Alif M. A. wrote:
I think it would be nice to have Arch websites mobile friendly, so that it can be viewed comfortably on any devices with different screen size.
For starting point, let's make the wiki, which is the main source of information, mobile friendly.
It's just a matter of adding meta viewport tag and another CSS file(s) for smaller screen sizes.
Hi Alif, On android there is an app called "ArchWiki Viewer" [0] that is nice to use. For all uses of packages and aur I'm completly fine with the scrollable view, but if "somebody" does the css, I won't complain ;) [0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jtmcn.archwiki.viewer Sebastian
Hi,
On android there is an app called "ArchWiki Viewer" [0] that is nice to use. For all uses of packages and aur I'm completly fine with the scrollable view, but if "somebody" does the css, I won't complain ;)
A solution would be to use MediaWiki's MobileFronted [0] extension, possibly until someone tackles the issue and writes the CSS. [0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MobileFrontend Abdelhakim
On March 17, 2017 11:54:11 PM GMT+07:00, Abdelhakim Qbaich
Hi,
On android there is an app called "ArchWiki Viewer" [0] that is nice to use. For all uses of packages and aur I'm completly fine with the scrollable view, but if "somebody" does the css, I won't complain ;) Who need a separate app when browsers are available.
I'll experiment with archlinuxjp stylesheet locally, since their web is already optimized. Let's see if their styles can br applied to archlinux main site. Is there git repository related to Arch wiki base index.html and core stylesheets?
A solution would be to use MediaWiki's MobileFronted [0] extension, possibly until someone tackles the issue and writes the CSS.
[0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MobileFrontend
Abdelhakim
Mobile frontend seems to be a good thing to be enabled, which is easier and faster than designing mobile stylesheet from scratch.
On 03/17/2017 11:57 AM, Alif M. A. wrote:
I think it would be nice to have Arch websites mobile friendly, so that it can be viewed comfortably on any devices with different screen size.
For starting point, let's make the wiki, which is the main source of information, mobile friendly.
It's just a matter of adding meta viewport tag and another CSS file(s) for smaller screen sizes.
Can I assume since you tagged this as an RFC, you have something more substantial you haven't yet mentioned, rather than merely an idle suggestion that "it would be nice if we were more mobile-friendly"? Or should I just ignore this thread right from the start, since it won't go anywhere anyway? -- Eli Schwartz
On March 18, 2017 12:09:17 AM GMT+07:00, Eli Schwartz via arch-general
I think it would be nice to have Arch websites mobile friendly, so
On 03/17/2017 11:57 AM, Alif M. A. wrote: that
it can be viewed comfortably on any devices with different screen size.
For starting point, let's make the wiki, which is the main source of information, mobile friendly.
It's just a matter of adding meta viewport tag and another CSS file(s) for smaller screen sizes.
Can I assume since you tagged this as an RFC, you have something more substantial you haven't yet mentioned, rather than merely an idle suggestion that "it would be nice if we were more mobile-friendly"?
Ok. Got what I need. I can use mobile.css from https://github.com/ArchLinuxJP/archwiki-jp/blob/master/skins/ArchLinux/ to be applied and modify https://git.archlinux.org/vhosts/wiki.archlinux.org.git/tree/skins/ArchLinux... to apply mobile.css for screen smaller than 790px. This need to be tested first on my local Archwiki. If it works, I'll submit a pull request so that my changes can be included.
Or should I just ignore this thread right from the start, since it won't go anywhere anyway?
Feel free to ignore this thread if it's not within your interest.
On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 03:57:34PM +0000, Alif M. A. wrote:
I think it would be nice to have Arch websites mobile friendly, so that it can be viewed comfortably on any devices with different screen size.
For starting point, let's make the wiki, which is the main source of information, mobile friendly.
It's just a matter of adding meta viewport tag and another CSS file(s) for smaller screen sizes.
Here is current my WIP screenshot. https://transfer.sh/4PHet/wip-archwiki-mobile.png Quite usable for comfortable mobile use.
Looks nice, compared to how the current version looks on my phone.
On Sat, Mar 18, 2017, 10:20 PM Alif M. A.
On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 03:57:34PM +0000, Alif M. A. wrote:
I think it would be nice to have Arch websites mobile friendly, so that it can be viewed comfortably on any devices with different screen size.
For starting point, let's make the wiki, which is the main source of information, mobile friendly.
It's just a matter of adding meta viewport tag and another CSS file(s) for smaller screen sizes.
Here is current my WIP screenshot. https://transfer.sh/4PHet/wip-archwiki-mobile.png
Quite usable for comfortable mobile use.
-- Best Sajjad 'MCSH' Heydari
I've created pull request on the bug tracker[1]. Hopefully it will be accepted and merged so users will be more comfortable when viewing the wiki on mobile devices. [1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/46697
For those interested, here is my working
repository.
https://bitbucket.org/alive4ever/wiki.archlinux.org/branch/mobile-friendly
Review and suggestions are appreciated.
On March 19, 2017 2:37:53 AM GMT+07:00, "Alif M. A."
I've created pull request on the bug tracker[1]. Hopefully it will be accepted and merged so users will be more comfortable when viewing the wiki on mobile devices.
It seems that Pierre has experimented with MobileFrontend on wiki.archlinux.de site. So far so good, the view is close to Wikipedia and quite usable, although Arch Linux customization is gone. Hope it will land on the main Archwiki soon. Here is my experiment with mobile frontend on my local Archwiki server. https://transfer.sh/kZwFA/archwiki-mobile-frontend.png The downside of MobileFrontend that it's not responsive. Changing viewport from desktop viewport to mobile viewport needs page reload to make use of proper skin.
Or maybe we can look at archstrike.org
It uses just the same layout as archlinux.org, but displays in a mobile-friendly way... Is a code-migrating possible?
RW
On Mar 17, 2017, at 11:57 PM, "Alif M. A."
I think it would be nice to have Arch websites mobile friendly, so that it can be viewed comfortably on any devices with different screen size.
For starting point, let's make the wiki, which is the main source of information, mobile friendly.
It's just a matter of adding meta viewport tag and another CSS file(s) for smaller screen sizes.
On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 03:57:34PM +0000, Alif M. A. wrote:
I think it would be nice to have Arch websites mobile friendly, so that it can be viewed comfortably on any devices with different screen size.
For starting point, let's make the wiki, which is the main source of information, mobile friendly.
It's just a matter of adding meta viewport tag and another CSS file(s) for smaller screen sizes.
The wiki page has been mobile friendly for a while, with the help of MobileFrontend extension for Mediawiki. Now, let's put some work for the BBS. I have been able to import archbbs-jp mobile.css for use with Arch FluxBB. Below is the screenshot of how Arch BBS displayed with mobile.css : https://transfer.sh/H3QeC/archbbs_wip.png Viewing the forum works fine so far. For Arch web admins/developers and those interested in making Arch websites mobile friendly, my work is available under 'mobile-friendly' branch on this git repository : https://bitbucket.org/alive4ever/bbs.archlinux.org Feel free to suggest anything to make it better.
participants (6)
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Abdelhakim Qbaich
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Alif M. A.
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Eli Schwartz
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Robert Wong
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Sajjad Heydari
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Sebastian Lau