[Wikia-l] Monobook vs Monaco in text mode

[George Pribul]

Heya,

I noticed your message earlier on IRC :) I brought up the issue with Wikia
briefly, though in the context of mobile browsing. I think it's a fair
point, as mobile browser usage is ever increasing, and Monaco isn't perfect
for small screens and simple browsers. Assuming you're not going to do a lot
of editing from such browsers, one workaround for the moment is to set up a
second account with your prefs set on a simple skin, to save you changing it
each time you visit.

Do many people use text only browsers? What kind of situations?

Regards,
George (Kirkburn)





2008/10/4 James Twyford <jtwyford at gmail.com>

> Have the monaco designers looked at how pages look in a text-mode
> browser (I'm using elinks) as compared to monobook?
>
> Picking some random article while logged out:
> http://www.wowwiki.com/Ashbringer[?useskin=monobook]<http://www.wowwiki.com/Ashbringer%5B?useskin=monobook%5D>.
> In Monobook, 21
> pages... In Monaco: 32. Actual article content: 18 pages. (1 page is
> 24 rows of 80 characters, a standard terminal window size)
>
> I know this is the reason the for the blind wikis are still using
> monobook (or they were the last time I heard about it), but is there
> any plan to fix this? Especially the two pages of cruft before page
> content. I'd like to think this would help the almighty page rank
> too... Less junk on the page certainly makes the job easier for the
> spiders.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> -james
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