2025-09-09 10:06 UTC
@wikipedia nice! I'm wondering why there is two different versions in the first place though? Couldn't you have one page that auto adapts to mobile with CSS?
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@alilly@solarpunk.moe 2025-09-09 10:29
@ConnyDuck @wikipedia Wikipedia gained mobile support very early, before responsive design was well-developed as a field. The Minerva skin (mobile layout) probably stays around because of a combination of technical inertia (mobile behavior being coded around whether Minerva is in use) and simply being good enough.
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@cscott@kolektiva.social 2025-09-09 13:49
@ConnyDuck @wikipedia long story short: legacy code. Extension:MobileFrontEnd has historically done a number of mobile-only rearrangements of the content, creating collapsible sections, pulling up a lead image, suppressing infoboxes, etc. It is taking a long time to backport all the features into the desktop skin.
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@lunarloony@dosgame.club 2025-09-09 17:58
@ConnyDuck @wikipedia Think it was around before CSS media queries were a thing