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Wikis using the MobileFrontend and/or MobileApp extensions (including all Wikimedia wikis) can define mobile CSS on the MediaWiki:Mobile.css page. To date, the apps have not incorporated up-to-date, site-specific mobile CSS. In commit 0db57d7 a copy of the English Wikipedia's Mobile.css was copied into the MobileApp repo as [[ https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-MobileApp/blob/master/styles/enwiki.less | enwiki.less ]], and it remains there largely unchanged to this date, and that among other things is being bundled into the apps. A wiki's MediaWiki:Mobile.css page is exposed via the MobileApp extension as the module `mobile.app.site`. The apps should be updated to take advantage of this. There are a couple of ways we could go about this: - If the apps want to move toward a network-first CSS loading strategy, they could link the site-specific mobile CSS directly in the page view `index.html` by adding `<link rel="stylesheet" href="/w/load.php?only=styles&modules=mobile.app.site">`. This seems to me to be the best strategy. - If the apps instead prefer to continue following a bundling strategy, then the site-specific CSS could be exposed as a new MCS endpoint to accompany the universal app CSS provided by the base CSS endpoint. In this case the apps could bundle a small additional stylesheet for each site, and dynamically change the one referenced from `index.html` at runtime. In either case we'll want to get rid of the existing enwiki.less. A patch to do that is here. Until a further strategy is decided upon, the apps can continue bundling the (up-to-date) enwiki styles by requesting bundled styles specifically from en.wikipedia.org and adding `mobile.app.site` to the list of modules requested.

Wikis using the MobileFrontend and/or MobileApp extensions (including all Wikimedia wikis) can define mobile CSS on the MediaWiki:Mobile.css page. To date, the apps have not incorporated up-to-date, site-specific mobile CSS. In commit 0db57d7 a copy of the English Wikipedia's Mobile.css was copied into the MobileApp repo as [[ https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-MobileApp/blob/master/styles/enwiki.less | enwiki.less ]], and it remains there largely unchanged to this date, and that among other things is being bundled into the apps. A wiki's MediaWiki:Mobile.css page is exposed via the MobileApp extension as the module `mobile.app.site`. The apps should be updated to take advantage of this. There are a couple of ways we could go about this: - If the apps want to move toward a network-first CSS loading strategy, they could link the site-specific mobile CSS directly in the page view `index.html` by adding `<link rel="stylesheet" href="/w/load.php?only=styles&modules=mobile.app.site">`. This seems to me to be the best strategy. - If the apps instead prefer to continue following a bundling strategy, then the site-specific CSS could be exposed as a new MCS endpoint to accompany the universal app CSS provided by the base CSS endpoint. In this case the apps could bundle a small additional stylesheet for each site, and dynamically change the one referenced from `index.html` at runtime when loading a page. In either case we'll want to get rid of the existing enwiki.less. A patch to do that is here. Until a further strategy is decided upon, the apps can continue bundling the (up-to-date) enwiki styles by requesting bundled styles specifically from en.wikipedia.org and adding `mobile.app.site` to the list of modules requested.

Wikis using the MobileFrontend and/or MobileApp extensions (including all Wikimedia wikis) can define mobile CSS on the MediaWiki:Mobile.css page. To date, the apps have not incorporated up-to-date, site-specific mobile CSS. In commit 0db57d7 a copy of the English Wikipedia's Mobile.css was copied into the MobileApp repo as [[ https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-MobileApp/blob/master/styles/enwiki.less | enwiki.less ]], and it remains there largely unchanged to this date, and that among other things is being bundled into the apps. A wiki's MediaWiki:Mobile.css page is exposed via the MobileApp extension as the module `mobile.app.site`. The apps should be updated to take advantage of this. There are a couple of ways we could go about this: - If the apps want to move toward a network-first CSS loading strategy, they could link the site-specific mobile CSS directly in the page view `index.html` by adding `<link rel="stylesheet" href="/w/load.php?only=styles&modules=mobile.app.site">`. This seems to me to be the best strategy. - If the apps instead prefer to continue following a bundling strategy, then the site-specific CSS could be exposed as a new MCS endpoint to accompany the universal app CSS provided by the base CSS endpoint. In this case the apps could bundle a small additional stylesheet for each site, and dynamically change the one referenced from `index.html` at runtime when loading a page. In either case we'll want to get rid of the existing enwiki.less. A patch to do that is here. Until a further strategy is decided upon, the apps can continue bundling the (up-to-date) enwiki styles by requesting bundled styles specifically from en.wikipedia.org and adding `mobile.app.site` to the list of modules requested.