MobileFrontend/Requirements

Task	Title	Description	Next step	Progress	Priority	Difficulty
#1	#Implement views	Create the views needed to support XHTML, WML rendering of file, home, image and show	open	60%	Medium	12 hours
#2	#Implement layouts	Create the layouts needed to support XHTML, WML rendering of application	open	70%	Medium	10 hours
#3	#Implement parsers	Create image, WML and XHTML parsers for page content	open	70%	Medium	20 hours
#4	#Create models	Create models for (article, device, image, [other resource])	open	50%	Medium	10 hours
#5	#Create controllers	Create articles controller or equivalent [if not MVC] (including helpers, etc.)	open	0%	Medium	12 hours
#6	#Create caching support	Implement server resource retrieval and caching support	open	55%	Medium	12 hours
#7	#Implement format lists	Implement formats list (view format e.g., html, etc., javascript support, layout)	open	90%	Medium	8 hours
#8	#Implement translation support	Convert translation support for various global strings	open	80%	Medium	8 hours
#9	#Implement exception handling	Create global exception handling support	open	0%	Medium	4 hours
#10	#Implement basic logging	Implement basic logging and statistics support	open	0%	Medium	6 hours
#11	#Implement css	Create device and format based css (e.g., iphone, nokia, firefox, blackberry, etc.)	open	60%	Medium	8 hours

Implement views

Create the views needed to support XHTML, WML rendering of file, home, image and show

Implement layouts

Create the layouts needed to support XHTML, WML rendering of application

Implement parsers

Create the image, WML and XHTML parsers for various content

Create models

Create models for (article, device, image, [other resource])

Create controllers

Create articles controller or equivalent [if not MVC] (including helpers, etc.)

Create caching support

Implement server resource retrieval and caching support

Possible solution: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Varnish_caching

Implement format lists

Implement formats list (view format e.g., html, etc., javascript support, layout)

Implement translation support

Convert translation support for various global strings. Use standard MediaWiki internationalization method.

Implement exception handling

Create global exception handling support

Implement basic logging

Implement basic logging and statistics support

Implement css

Create device and format based css (e.g., iphone, nokia, firefox, blackberry, etc.)

Possible Roadmap

A General Primer

With all of the different formats we have to support, there is a fairly simple system for correlating a Device with a Format with some specific actions to take based on that Format.

Process:

A request comes in from a mobile browser
The request generates a Device object

- Any method_missing that Device receives is looked up in the format specification

- The formats are specified in config/formats

An Article is fetched for that device

- First, the article figures out what kind of parser needed to be run on the page

- It then generates a key with that parser type.

- It then checks to see if that has been cached

- If it is not cached, it grabs scrapes the Wikipedia page and processes it with some parsers/* class

- If it is cached, it returns that cached object

The layout is generated with the returned Article#html

- The device format is used heavily here (aka, "= current_device.stylesheet_name")

- An "app/views/layouts/_search_#{format}.html" file is rendered in the search area

- Changes in the search box and CSS fields are the most different between formats

Back Log

Evaluate size of search box
Language variant support needs to be checked.
Load wurfl config in memory, instead of from wurfl-config.xml. Makes it possible to check for memcached configuration and makes it possible to change config without software deployment changes.
interface lang vs contentlang.