Hi Jon,
A not-so quick question for you:
I use custom responsive skin on my wiki, but recently have started a move to separate the mobile site from the desktop one, in order to improve performance. However, I have no wish to use MobileFrontend, as it is inextricably tied to Minerva. What I did instead was take Extension:MobileDetect and improve upon it, mainly by taking parts out of MobileFrontend.
My main problem at this point is with the ResourceLoader target; I want to use that functionality to prevent some modules from loading in mobile. Unfortunately, the target definition for each module is in core, even though MobileFrontend is a separate extension - therefore certain modules that I need, such as mediawiki.legacy.shared, are not defined for mobile, simply because Minerva doesn't need them. While I can redefine every module manually for mobile, this will be very error prone; therfore, I tried doing so automatically using a whitelist and parsing both $wgResourceModules and Resources.php (because core modules aren't in $wgResourceModules).
What I do is allow 2 ways to define whitelisted mobile modules:
- Using the global $wgMobileDetectModuleWhitelist
- By a new hook, MobileDetectWhitelistModules, where you can add the name of a module(s).
This is my fork of MobileDetect, and this is a comparison showing only the whitelist changes.
Unfortunately, this just doesn't work... Maybe because I'm doing all the work in onBeforePageDisplay, and it's just too late to register and load my modules? Any ideas how to fix that? Or maybe just tell me if I'm just going down the wrong path?
Thanks,
Dror.
P.S. I did take a look at [[ResourceLoader/Writing a MobileFrontend friendly ResourceLoader module]]. It looks like maybe your are adding modules in SkinTemplateOutputPageBeforeExec?