Showing the navbox (a 1000px table) on a mobile device (320px) is a
difficult problem and not skin specific as Brad quite rightly points out,
but a template problem.
Minerva shows navboxes on desktop resolutions - you can see for yourself:
(they are at
the bottom of the page). It only hides them on mobile.
I've added Isarra's Monobook patch to our staging environment so you can
explore how it behaves with real world content on a real device:
They appear pretty much the same on any skin on a mobile device - because
they are defined in a wiki page template - not in the skin. I'm not sure
how Isarra plans to handle them, but I don't think there are many options
so I think we should assume good faith in whatever she chooses to do.
The fundamental problem is a lot of our content is designed for desktop
presentation and needs serious thought on how it can be adapted for mobile.
On Wed, 4 Apr 2018 at 13:52 Strainu <strainu10(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2018-04-04 23:41 GMT+03:00 Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
<bjorsch(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 3:18 PM, Strainu
<strainu10(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Skipping navboxes is a decision that was taken by
the WMF team
responsible for the mobile site (whatever it was called at the time)
and can be solved cleanly only at the skin level, but I don't expect
this to happen as long as it will break the mobile site.
Your proposal would be the ideal argument for reversing the current
"solution", yes, but realistically, it's not going to happen
throughout the hundreds of wikis that implemented navboxes.
Here we're talking about Isarra's very interesting project to make the
Monobook skin responsive, not whatever decisions WMF's mobile teams may
have made in the past for their mobile-only skin. She is not obligated to
follow their lead just because they led, and I'd recommend she doesn't in
this case.
Maybe I wasn't clear, but that's exactly what I meant as well: I'm
very curious to see how *Mobile MonoBook* handles that particular
issue. I most certainly hope Isarra *doesn't* follow Minerva's
(mis)behavior. If the solution is acceptable, perhaps it can then be
adapted to Minerva. However, I haven't found any navboxes in the demo
wiki.
Strainu
Note that's my personal recommendation and not any sort of official WMF
position. I likely won't even be involved in the code review for her
patch.
--
Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Senior Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation
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