Re: Development of PerlMonks "Mobile" is now open for business

Sorry, mobile only pages are already out.

State of the art is to have an adaptive design for all clients.

These are based on JS/CSS frameworks like bootstrap.

Tobyink already did a nodelet hack to demo PM on bootstrap ( PerlMonks meets Twitter Bootstrap) and I know at least 2 regulars (Your Mother,choroba) using it on a daily basis.

IMHO should something like this be our approach - not necessarily bootstrap & jQuery, but similar.

I would have preferred to have this discussion in a less public board, alas there is no alternative.

Cheers Rolf
_{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)

Wikisyntax for the Monastery}

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Re^2: Development of PerlMonks "Mobile" is now open for business by jdporter (Paladin) on Feb 15, 2020 at 19:19 UTC
IMHO should something like this be our approach I don't disagree. But I have nowhere near the chops to implement it myself. Other expertise will have to step up and help. :-) I would have preferred to have this discussion in a less public board, alas there is no alternative. You can start a thread on the pmdev page. That has all the confidentiality we need, I think. I reckon we are the only monastery ever to have a dungeon stuffed with 16,000 zombies.	[reply]
Re^3: Development of PerlMonks "Mobile" is now open for business by LanX (Saint) on Feb 15, 2020 at 19:54 UTC
> You can start a thread on the pmdev page. Unfortunately we are turning in circles... ... pmdev threads quickly become unreadable. I.E. without RAT support and/or messages. > > IMHO should something like this be our approach > I don't disagree. I'll create a showcase. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply]
Re^4: Development of PerlMonks "Mobile" is now open for business by jdporter (Paladin) on Feb 17, 2020 at 17:26 UTC
without RAT support Patches welcome. :-) and/or messages Notification on reply seems to work for me... I reckon we are the only monastery ever to have a dungeon stuffed with 16,000 zombies.	[reply]
Re^5: Development of PerlMonks "Mobile" is now open for business by LanX (Saint) on Feb 17, 2020 at 21:00 UTC
Re^6: Development of PerlMonks "Mobile" is now open for business by jdporter (Paladin) on Feb 17, 2020 at 23:55 UTC
Re^2: Development of PerlMonks "Mobile" is now open for business by Bod (Parson) on Nov 15, 2020 at 16:24 UTC
State of the art is to have an adaptive design for all clients. Absolutely! And it's not exactly difficult...although it can be a fit fiddly and time consuming As a newbie here I am amazed at how difficult posting, navigating and commenting is, especially on mobile. Having to put HTML markup in is a bit like being back in the 1990's. A good start would surely be to put a viewport tag in and disable the right hand block on low screen widths with a CSS media selector. It wouldn't help commenting but would immediately improve the display of all nodes. The lack of a modern, responsive and simple site does nothing to dispel the image of Perl being old fashioned, outdated and obsolete.	[reply]
Re^3: Development of PerlMonks "Mobile" is now open for business by Anonymous Monk on Nov 16, 2020 at 15:59 UTC
I love the charming anachronisms of old school websites. Perlmonk's pages are available as XML so writing new client apps is really easy. Minor tweaks to accomodate mobile also seems wise.	[reply]