OpenAustralia.org

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Very basic mobile version wireframe knocked up in Balsamiq on the bus enroute from Canberra to Sydney for hackfest.

Go Balsomiq mockups!

@Rob - Stupid question from me: for a first pass at this are you going to be able to get a mobile version working by only applying changes to the CSS (except for the auto-detection) or is it going to require the html output to change as well?

From Rob's email, looks like a bit more than just CSS changes: http://groups.google.com.au/group/openaustralia-dev/msg/b0c32e544011b8dd

@Matthew - not a stupid question at all 8)

I was hoping that I could get away with just that - but the php and POSH is a bit convoluted for that. So, I've ended up creating a mobile.php and iphone.php that output simpler versions of the POSH output by index.php. I'm also currently doing similar cut-downs for search/index.php. So this means I haven't made any of the existing code incompatible with twfy...I've just tried to create similar and parallel code paths. Ideally I'd strip it all down and use a cleaner abstraction but I'm very aware of making as little impact on the existing code base as possible while delivering the best mobile results.

If you want to discuss this further just bounce me an email, ping me on the dev list or grab me on irc.

BTW: Hoping to have a diff ready for checking tomorrow (fingers crossed).

@Rob - thanks for filling me in. That all makes perfect sense. Looking forward to it!

@Matthew - one thing I forgot to mention is that the mod_rewrite rules use passthrough handling so even though the iPhone page gets served by iphone.php or other mobiles get served by mobile.php you still see the same URL as a PC user and you don't get redirected. At least this is the case for the main entry point for the site http://OpenAustralia.org/ From there the navigation and form interactions keep you interacting with the relevant version of the site.

I have done a search for sites pointing directly to the index.php path (e.g. google - link:http://www.OpenAustralia.org/index.php) but couldn't find any so I've kept the regex simple and just handle the basic top level URL.

I also include a link so if you want you can switch back to viewing the full PC version of the site if you want - choice is obviously important.

8( Still struggling with the convoluted way the search results pages are built. Hopefully have it finished tonight.

If I do...is it possible to get it put into a public dev instance tomorrow for testing?

@Matthew - I got it all working (I think) - just need to roll it into dev to test with more data. Can you let me know how you want to do this?

Ok... @Henare was very helpful on irc - I've forked twfy on github (robman) and have pushed my changes to that repos. I've also sent a pull request to @Matthew.

Not happy that the mobile.php files are just copies of index.php with bits commented out - will move over to a global mobile (or other device) flag as soon as I have time.

Also may be a small bug in the php redirect in mp/ but will test that more when it's loaded into a public dev environment with more data than I have.

Will add a global mobile footer soon...and lot's of ideas for a nice iPhone (and maybe Palm Pre) version soon too.

If anyone has any questions or trouble getting it running just give me a holar...

@Rob - should I create a separate ticket for adding the global mobile footer? I'm assuming this is going to have a link to the non-mobile version of the site too. Is that right?

Hey Matthew, that would be great as I think there are some broader issues (e.g. subscribe options) that need to be discussed too. How do you want to handle the iPhone plan too?

And yes...this should definitely include a link to view the full PC site. On a separate note our dev team is working on a Creative Commons based "oneWEBaddress" mobile/pc switcher campaign to try to standardise this across sites so more info on that soon.

Thanks for promoting this into test!

See newly created ticket OA-304 for adding a standard footer for the mobile version

most pages appear fine on iphone, but for two – when i entered my postcode on the initial screen the subsequent page (showing reps for my area) was wide screen format, and the related page for changing which postcode i want as my pref.

OA-304, OA-309 & OA-312 are now all fixed. Checking in code now so after some testing on test.openaustralia this should be ready to release.

Latest version deployed to test.openaustralia.org for testing

Merged and deployed