[RFC] Include mobile style

[Arty]

Okay, I'm going to stop arguing with you, because you're clearly not reading my posts >_<

I am reading your posts, but not agreeing with you. And I will never agree with using JS for styling. That's what CSS is for.

[Senky]

...Are you volunteering to develop a style that doesn't require JS and improves on Prosilver on mobiles?

Why not? Here is a whole styles team currently (at least according to what I can see) doing nothing, as any changes to template are done directly by authors of pull request themselves. We just need to finalise this RFC, create ticket, change some parts of code (determining of mobile devices; ACP Styles division; changes to DB; ...) and members of styles team can start doing brand new mobile style based on colours and look of prosilver. Or am I wrong, styles team?

[brunoais]

To support Arty (whose opinion I agree)
Not the best example, still:
http://www.w3.org/wiki/What_can_you_do_ ... esponsibly
w3c is against making websites that fully depend on js to work. Js is meant to enhance user experience and not allow user experience.

Edit:
Even a better one!
http://www.w3.org/wiki/JavaScript_best_ ... chnologies

[callumacrae]

Then why not just only enable the mobile style on browsers that have JavaScript enabled?

[Arty]

Then why not just only enable the mobile style on browsers that have JavaScript enabled?

Why not just make a proper style that works on all mobile devices?

[callumacrae]

Then why not just only enable the mobile style on browsers that have JavaScript enabled?

Why not just make a proper style that works on all mobile devices?

Are you volunteering?

Style that works for nearly everyone > no style at all, no?

[brunoais]

Then why not just only enable the mobile style on browsers that have JavaScript enabled?

We don't do things such that:
"If you want to see this properly, turn javascript on."

Then why not just only enable the mobile style on browsers that have JavaScript enabled?

Why not just make a proper style that works on all mobile devices?

+1
We just need to use the @media attribute.

Then why not just only enable the mobile style on browsers that have JavaScript enabled?

Why not just make a proper style that works on all mobile devices?

Are you volunteering?

Style that works for nearly everyone > no style at all, no?

I believe that we don't want (at least I think so) to make a system that does not work with all browsers that are still supported by their makers. We want to make things properly with as little shortcuts as possible. That is an unnecessary shortcut.

[callumacrae]

Then why not just only enable the mobile style on browsers that have JavaScript enabled?

We don't do things such that:
"If you want to see this properly, turn javascript on."

Where did I say that? I meant having a redirect to a mobile style written in JS so that non-js browsers see the normal style.

Then why not just only enable the mobile style on browsers that have JavaScript enabled?

Why not just make a proper style that works on all mobile devices?

+1
We just need to use the @media attribute.

-1 so much. For a start, it isn't possible to detect mobiles properly using media attributes, and that would increase the size of the style to the point that it is unusably slow on slow connections such as mobile connections.

[naderman]

Did you consider that one can actually use @media attributes in a separate mobile style and doesn't have to use them as part of the default prosilver?

Rather than just raging against anyone who dare suggest anything other than what you want, maybe think about the other options and consider if they aren't doable as well. As they quite definitely are and have been used by others in the past. You might also have noticed that you are the only person going on about requiring Javascript, and maybe should consider if you should go along with what everyone else appears to think would be a better solution, rather than continuing this fight forever.

[Danielx64]

Sometimes, we have to move with everyone else. How many times have you seen people complaining that phpBB is years behind everything else? Maybe we should listen to them.

That's bullshit argument. Point me to a modern forum software that doesn't work without JS. You might be surprised to find out that all of them work fine with JS disabled.

JavaScript should be used only to enhance user experience. CSS should be used for styling. Period. I don't understand why you are even debating this.

On the desktop, I can totally agree with you. On the mobile, I do not. Neither do any of the other forum softwares that provide mobile styles:

Forum software mobile styles that require JS:
vBulletin
IPB

Forum software mobile styles that don't:
N/A

Forum software without mobile styles:
SMF
MyBB
XenForo
FluxBB

Um excuse me, SMF does have a mobile theme, it part of 2.0.1 here another forum:

Main link: http://phpmotion.com/forum/

Mobile: http://phpmotion.com/forum/index.php?wap2