Extension:MobileFrontend/Deployments

This page is intended to track changes to the MobileFrontend extension as they're deployed to the WMF cluster.

4 April, 2012

 * Fix for

2 April, 2012

 * Respect
 * action=mobileview now follows redirects by default
 * Change Ib2cad740: Remove dismiss zero banner code
 * Improved browser support for toggling code (see )
 * Homepage configuration assistance
 * UX improvements to beta
 * footer expands no matter where you click
 * hitting enter on search goes to first result

26 March, 2012

 * Profiling improvements.
 * Tweaks to reference reveal feature
 * Revised footer
 * Better browser support for full screen searching

20 March, 2012

 * Real fix for 31214 (see r113693)
 * Beta version has a first version of Reference Reveal
 * Styling changes to search results in beta
 * Minor CSS tweaks to released version including increase of font size.
 * Change in manual toggling of mobile/desktop view relying on cookies
 * Also removes explicit 'permanently disable mobiles site' as behavior is essentially duplicated by clicking ' desktop view' link
 * Blocker: | RT #2645 - "Have squids detect mf_useformat=desktop cookie and handle the same way as they do for 'stopMobileRedirect=true'"
 * prop=excerpts API has been replaced with more feature-rich prop=extracts.

15 March, 2012

 * Fix for bugzilla::35249

13 March, 2012

 * Making the 'useformat=mobile' query param sticky when viewing the mobile site, making use of a cookie. (removed pending rewrite of desktop/mobile view toggling)
 * Minor CSS changes
 * fix for bugzilla::31214 (removed do to issue caught when testing on test.wikipedia.org)
 * fix for bugzilla::35116

8 March, 2012

 * In response to 34144, decoupled MobileFrontend from total dependency on "en.m.wikipedia.org" hostname format.
 * Removed $wgMobileDomain
 * Added $wgMobileUrlTemplate for defining a hostname format that should be unique for mobile. Made usage of this optional.
 * Removed dependency on X-Device headers when generating mobile URLs. Mobile URLs will now properly be generated when using "useformat=mobile"
 * Added new API features:
 * Core action=parse has been extended with options to return pages in mobile-friendly formats.
 * prop=excerpt returns excerpts of article content either in plain text or restricted HTML.
 * action=mobileview to return page data in format suitable for mobile app/skin.
 * The MobileFrontend javascript and css files have undergone a large refactoring providing unit tests (30388) and various fixes that will hopefully lead to better maintainability such as using css as much as possible when it comes to sizing and positioning (see 32175 for example).
 * Presentation fixes to reflect desktop site 34711 and 34686
 * Javascript has on the most part been separated from the html (see 34422)
 * The mobile frontend extension now works without javascript disabled 34025
 * A few minor usability improvements - search box now highlights when clicked 19935 and the history page now redirects to the normal site 31148
 * Addition of unsetVal to WebRequest.php (see Special:Code/MediaWiki/112732)