Last modified: 2013-12-12 11:52:39 UTC
On mobile devices like the iPad the font size of the standard view of MediaWiki/Wikipedia/... pages is really tiny. MediaWiki webpages should therefore include a meta viewport tag with e.g. width=768 for mobile devices like iPad. The layout with viewport width=768 can be tested with an iOS bookmark: 1) Bookmark any webpage on IOS 2) Edit the created bookmark and change its link to the following: javascript: meta = document.createElement("meta"); meta.name = "viewport"; meta.content = "width=768"; document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(meta); 3) Open a WikiMedia webpage 4) Tap on the created bookmark to apply the viewport width=768 to the actually displayed webpage
(Please leave the severity field as "enhancement". Thanks.)
for wikipedia there is a mobile site, http://en.m.wikipedia.org/, however the stylesheet is not responsive so the copy won't re-flow on zoom-in. for other wiki installs this extension may help http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MobileFrontend. the approach of adding a viewport with width=768 is in imho not the "right" approach. this bug has more to do with the overall strategy of whether or not to make the wiki a responsive design or something else.
