Improve the /mobile site for modern smartphones

[swaldman]

Title:
Improve the /mobile site for modern smartphones

Area:
www.dreamwidth.org/mobile

Summary:
The capabilities of the current www.dreamwidth.org/mobile site are very limited, and should be expanded.

Description:
The site at www.dreamwidth.org/mobile is currently very basic, and allows reading and simple posting.

This is good, and is vital for the older generation of mobile browsers which can only handle simple web pages. Please do not remove this.

However,
There are now many smartphone browsers around (e.g. webkit-based ones, fennec, etc) which can render more fully-featured web pages, but which suffer on the standard DW site because of things like fixed-width text boxes (e.g. on my phone, fitting the edit box for a new post onto the screen makes the text illegible).

It would be useful to have a version of the site which offers most of the functionality of the normal DW site in a layout geared to small screens.

I realise that building a different version of every page would be a huge task. I hope there can be discussion on whether it can work automatically, and/or which bits of the site are needed.

Poll #2523 Improve the /mobile site for modern smartphones

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 40

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Should be implemented as-is.
25 (62.5%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
1 (2.5%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
13 (32.5%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (2.5%)