[p2pu-dev] problems with mobile UX on new.p2pu.org

John Britton public at johndbritton.com
Sat May 28 04:31:58 UTC 2011


YES, API.

I think minor tweaks to help mobile work better make sense, but would
definitely head toward an API before building a mobile version of the site.
An API would make it easier for us to develop the mobile version and make it
possible for others to build cool stuff.
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On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Jessy Kate Schingler
<jessy at jessykate.com>wrote:

> another way to look at this is as a bit of a chicken and egg thing. if it's
> painful to participate in the site from a mobile device, no wonder it's only
> 5% of our traffic :).
>
> i generally agree with you that this isn't an immediate priority since we
> have a lot of priorities! i also think the nature of most courses isn't such
> that there's likely to be a huge mobile-device-participation contingent...
>
> although, it does make me wonder what that would look like, and if there's
> some new opportunities there. for example, courses designed around game play
> with very simple UI components to indicate task completion, or to correlate
> to physical actions like arrival at a location or disvovery of an item
> (imagining open street maps courses or civics courses).
>
> if anything i think this is equally an argument for an API for the site (as
> you brought up the other day), as it is a mobile interface.
>
>
> Jessy
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>
> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:50 AM, John Britton <public at johndbritton.com>wrote:
>
>> +1 for a mobile version in the future, Maybe using JQuery Mobile.
>>
>> Honestly, it's not a priority right now. Mobile accounts for under 5% of
>> our traffic (according to google analytics)
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>>
>> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:21 AM, zuzel.vp <zuzel.vp at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The wizzywig view of the editor does not opens the keyboard of the
>>> nexus. Only the html view works ok. -- I think that was the issue with
>>> "real textbox, not scripty one you got".
>>>
>>> --
>>> Thanks,
>>>    Zuzel
>>>
>>> 2011/5/27 João Antonio de Menezes Neto <tonyhomes at gmail.com>:
>>> > an ideal scenario would be a mobile version instead of a mobile adapted
>>> > theme, but it implies double development...
>>> >
>>> > 2011/5/27 Jessy Kate Schingler <jessy at jessykate.com>
>>> >>
>>> >> On both my android and ipad there is no "mobile" theming, so its just
>>> the
>>> >> same as the regular site. I don't find it *terrible*, but it certainly
>>> could
>>> >> be better for navigation and faster with a proper mobile style.
>>> >>
>>> >> --sent from my mobile
>>> >>
>>> >> On May 27, 2011 8:57 AM, "Philipp Schmidt" <philipp at p2pu.org> wrote:
>>> >> > On 27 May 2011 14:53, Jessica Ledbetter <
>>> jessica at jessicaledbetter.com>
>>> >> > wrote:
>>> >> >> It looked alright last I checked on the iPad but I haven't pulled
>>> it up
>>> >> >> on
>>> >> >> the iPhone.
>>> >> >> We can do a mobile css (though actually there might be one already)
>>> or
>>> >> >> a
>>> >> >> real mobile site probably.
>>> >> >> But yes, definitely should work well on mobile.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > I am hoping this is something we can ask Mozilla to look at - since
>>> it
>>> >> > would affect drumbeat.org and their other sites as well.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > -- P
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