Adding Phone Browser support

[Hiemanshu Sharma]

With increase in people using and downloading ISOs on Phone(atleast i do 
it), i think we need to add support for phone browsers as well. This can 
be done in many different ways. I suggest building a new website such as 
m.fedoraproject.org, but ricky things otherwise to use the CSS ability 
to implement support for Phones.
I want to know what you people suggest on getting it done and if you 
think it is really worth the time to get something like this to be done. 
With almost all huge websites adding phone support its a good thing to 
walk with the world. So i am hoping for a nice little debate on this topic.

Regards,

Hiemanshu Sharma.

[Máirín Duffy]

On Sat, 2009-07-18 at 06:33 +0530, Hiemanshu Sharma wrote:
>  With increase in people using and downloading ISOs on Phone(atleast i
> do 
>  it), i think we need to add support for phone browsers as well. This can 
>  be done in many different ways. I suggest building a new website such as 
>  m.fedoraproject.org, but ricky things otherwise to use the CSS ability 
>  to implement support for Phones.
>  I want to know what you people suggest on getting it done and if you 
>  think it is really worth the time to get something like this to be done. 
>  With almost all huge websites adding phone support its a good thing to 
>  walk with the world. So i am hoping for a nice little debate on this topic. 
Well, why would someone want to view fpo on a phone browser?

They wouldn't want to download fedora from a phone browser right? If so,
we could drop those pages from the mobile version.

They probably would want to read planet and fedora news? Anything else
you can think of that might be useful to view on fpo while on the go?

~m

[Mel Chua]

>  They probably would want to read planet and fedora news? Anything
> else
>  you can think of that might be useful to view on fpo while on the go? 
The front/about page, for the on-the-go scenario of "I wonder what 
Fedora is/let me show you what Fedora is, this is our homepage." I agree 
with Mo that mobile browsers of fp.o will probably only look at a few pages.

--Mel

[Ricky Zhou]

On 2009-07-17 12:53:18 PM, Mel Chua wrote:
>  The front/about page, for the on-the-go scenario of "I wonder
> what  
>  Fedora is/let me show you what Fedora is, this is our homepage." I agree  
>  with Mo that mobile browsers of fp.o will probably only look at a few 
>  pages. 
As I mentioned on IRC, I think it's unnecessary duplication of effort
to
create a whole new set of pages (or even selectively take away pages)
for a mobile version of the website.  We can simply use the CSS handheld
media type to style the page in a way that looks great on those small
screens.

Thanks,
Ricky

[Sijis Aviles]

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Ricky Zhou<ricky(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>  On 2009-07-17 12:53:18 PM, Mel Chua wrote:
> > The front/about page, for the on-the-go scenario of "I wonder what
> > Fedora is/let me show you what Fedora is, this is our homepage." I agree
> > with Mo that mobile browsers of fp.o will probably only look at a few
> > pages.
>  As I mentioned on IRC, I think it's unnecessary duplication of effort to
>  create a whole new set of pages (or even selectively take away pages)
>  for a mobile version of the website.  We can simply use the CSS handheld
>  media type to style the page in a way that looks great on those small
>  screens.
>
>  Thanks,
>  Ricky
>  
I've been thinking about this for a few days and I will have to agree
that just creating a CSS stylesheet dedicated for handhelds would be
the approach. The benefit is that there would be a single locations
where updates would occur and it would eliminate (us or someone) from
up keeping another site, which in essence is a duplicate of stuff that
is out there... however, an idea is still have m.fp.o and on that
single page just put links to the major locations on the Fedora
Project universe (docs, planet, fpeople, blogs, etc).

Sijis

[Hiemanshu Sharma]

I agree with ricky and sijis, we could make a conditional CSS
statement and continue using the same content.
But we need to discuss and generalise things a little so we know what
resolution and other things are needed to put for the phone. I would
like to make it something like "One Size Fits All" so people with no
what screen size are still able to see and read(the docs for example)

Regards,

Hiemanshu Sharma

[Hiemanshu Sharma]

On 07/17/2009 10:23 PM, Mel Chua wrote:
> > They probably would want to read planet and fedora news? Anything
> else
> > you can think of that might be useful to view on fpo while on the go?
>
>  The front/about page, for the on-the-go scenario of "I wonder what 
>  Fedora is/let me show you what Fedora is, this is our homepage." I 
>  agree with Mo that mobile browsers of fp.o will probably only look at 
>  a few pages.
>
>  --Mel
>  
So mizmo you think only planet, blogs and fp.o site must be made with a 
phone browser support? What about docs? some people might have only a 
working net connection on the phone and want to download stuff or 
atleast look for help when the computer is not able to work.

Hiemanshu Sharma.