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Proposal: HTML5 Mobile Template for Apache Roller

Status

proposal under development

Issue

ROL-1919

Original Proposal

GSoC Proposal

Target Release

5.0+

Original Authors

Shelan Perera

Proposal Abstract:

Roller is a full-featured, multi-user and group-blog server suitable for blog sites large and small. It has features such as multi-user and group blogging, comment moderation, spam prevention, RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 support. In nutshell roller is a blogging engine.

Mobile browsers are starting to eclipse desktop web browsing and, unfortunately, most Roller themes do not work well on small-format mobile devices. This project will address this shortcoming by modifying the Roller blog rendering system to support mobile-ready blog theme templates, and providing one example theme that uses these features in combination with HTML5 to show full-sized pages to desktop browser users and small format pages to mobile users.

Requirements

  • Identify and differentiate request from desktop user agent to mobile user agent.
  • Ability to specify user preference for mobile theme or full theme (Desktop) as default theme.
  • Render mobile theme if user preferred mobile theme and request comes from a mobile device.
  • Add one HTML5 mobile theme as a sample.

Issues

  • How to detect the possible matches for mobile devices in HTTP header user agent.
  • Efficient way to manage and maintain possible devices list for new mobile devices added in the future.
  • How to render the mobile theme.(Do we let the theme designers to implement their own mobile theme or one theme to act in both ways.)
  • Basic information that is to display in mobile template
  • Feature to be added to the HTML5 template.(Client side storage , media etc.)

Design

How mobile detection is done

Roller mobile will use details in HTTP header's user-agent and match it with possible matches using regular expressions.

How to render the mobile theme.?

There are 3 options available,

*Use different weblog,search ,tags and entry pages for each template. complex to maintain and handle
*Use a one default mobile theme for all desktop theme. restricted
*Use different mobile theme for each desktop theme. preferred method

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