For non-JS users it should be possible to view a text only mode of the mobile site.
e.g http://lite.wikipedia.org
this would be useful for certain devices (e.g. monochromatic screens) and could be a viable non-JS alternative if we stopped showing content beyond the lead section
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Declined | None | T125920 [EPIC] Future exciting reading web performance endeavours | |||
| Declined | None | T100258 [EPIC] Only load the lead section on page load | |||
| Duplicate | None | T100260 Provide 'lite' version of mobile site |
@GWicke could be use Parsoid to do this e.g. store a text only version of content (with links) ? Is this doable now?
@Jdlrobson, this is indeed relatively easy to do with Parsoid HTML / RESTBase. Yesterday we added logic in @bearND's app service to massage Parsoid HTML, including a function to remove transclusion content and extensions. Once all the content you don't want to include in the plain text content is removed, you can get the text with `.textContent`.
Thanks @GWicke for the feedback! Now I just need to work out how we can make that available to the skin system...
Removing transclusion is not necessarily a good idea as templates are often used to format article content (e.g. a lot of wikis have templates like {{ko|some Koran text...}} which adds the appropriate lang attribute in an editor-friendly way). Same for extensions - we would probably not want to get rid of cites, for example. Or there is the Poem extension, used heavily in Wikisource.
@Tgr, normally only the content produced by specific templates is removed, not all of them. The parameter information is also available, so it could be even more selective where needed.