Board Thread:New Features/@comment-24739709-20150518230347/@comment-25512086-20150527202335

©TriMoon™ wrote: Why not just serve the pages with the desktop style by default UNLESS the wiki in question has made a mobile.(css/js) in wich case just load those after the default ones for the wiki. That way every wiki can customize their mobile view on a-per-need-basis. I'm a desktop/mobile user also, and i mostly browse using the desktop view on my mobile... I really don't get why the web is trying to reinvent the web on a per device-type case, we got an standardized HTML5 these days which all webpage rendering engines are working on to support...

In short make the mobile exceptions work "on-top" of the desktop styles, instead of REPLACING them... (Who wants to browse the web using Lynx these days anymore?) Thanks for question. Well, it is not so easy and it is not really the case to only change the .css file or and an .js one.

First of all, the wiki articles are not just only the text with some images inside. Very often they are really complex and messy with their templates in templates in sliders in tables in tabbers... and so on. ;) AND they are developed by users in order to show them on desktop which is understandable. However, when comes to render items like this on the mobile, they are really tricky and usually VERY NOT NICE :) They often have hardcoded css values, styling and structure which simply cannot be properly rendered without the dedicated mobile skin.

Moreover, do you really want to load all the heavy, desktop page AND then append to it custom mobile styling? :)

Thus, we are step by step introducing a mobile friendly syntax elements. It helps us parse wikitext properly and serve it to other skins, which are better prepared for the mobile usage (reduced page load time, big buttons, handful menu, responsivity).

Is this the answer for your concerns? If not, feel free to ask more :)