When looking at desktop browsers the situation gets better.
But Scott Jehl's (Filament Group) Tweet shows that the browser issues never end - Android browsers are the new IEs:
and so it goes, that the final push of another project is mostly spent fixing bugs in... not IE, but Android's various browsers.
— Scott Jehl (@scottjehl) January 27, 2014
When I had read the article I thought the aspect of loading huge libraries might be interesting for Moodle.
With more and more people being aware that less JavaScript is better than more is there a discussion at Moodle HQ or somewhere about the amount of JavaScript transferred and initialized in the browser to get Moodle working? The tendency in Moodle I see seams to be not to care about the amount of data. With the decision to load "simpleyui" as the default huge parts of the library are loaded by default. And with the decision to include jQuery it is easy to add an additional library which does basically the same as YUI but offers much more solutions because it is wider used.
I know that these decisions have been made due to common demand. But when we think about mobile use with less bandwidth and less powerful devices these decisions may need to be rethought.
It would be interesting to hear from the front-end team if they see JavaScript (and CSS) use as it is now as an issue and if so if they have started to think about possible solutions.
You are welcome, Martin. The look seams to have been quite ok when it worked for a long time.
Now it's a pleasure to see Moodle's interface evolve with the work from the front-end team - congratulations on the decision to establish two teams with quite different skill sets
Answer to self - the "Join us" button opens the forums. Good to know
Huge gratulations for the new design - I like the new theme and the fact that moodle.org is now much easier to read on a tablet. I was wondering for some time when you are going to change the theme.
I have some remarks:
Opening the moodle.org site on a tablet it was difficult to find the link to the forums. The nav bar was no help - I found the link when I scrolled down the page searching for forums.
On a hires device the font is too small (for my expectations on reading quality). I would like to see Moodle follow the trend to set text in bigger font sizes or to offer a font size switch.
When I started to write this posting and the edit page opened I was surprised by the fact that I see the drag&drop file upload area, which is useless on a tablet.