Can we fix the wiki on mobile?

Tony Atkins tony at raisingthefloor.org
Thu Oct 30 07:20:42 UTC 2014 

Hi, All:

Looks good on Chrome for Android.

Cheers,


Tony

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 6:19 PM, Obara, Justin <jobara at ocadu.ca> wrote:

> The wiki and mobile plugin should be configured and working now. Please
> try going to wiki.fluidproject.org on your mobile device to try it out.
> If there are any more issues please let us know.
>
> Thanks
> Justin
>
> > On Oct 22, 2014, at 6:26 PM, Gill, Avtar <agill at ocadu.ca> wrote:
> >
> > My apologies, Tony. I just noticed that you were pinging me here :/ I'll
> forward the logs once I return from vacation next week.
> >
> > I wanted to point out that the Fluid wiki is now using Confluence 5.6.3
> and I briefly tried the mobile interface on an Android phone. We are
> waiting for a license for the 'HTML for Confluence'* plugin that some of
> the content relies on. Until we get that license the "Unknown macro:
> {html}" text along with markup is being displayed on pages.
> >
> > Avtar
> >
> > * https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.confluence.html
> >
> > Excerpts from Tony Atkins's message of 2014-10-17 02:37:26 -0400:
> >> Hi, All:
> >>
> >> When the dust settles, I would like to take a few minutes to leave a
> proper
> >> bug report on the problems we encountered, as it seemed the plugin was
> >> obviously trying and failing to deliver the content rather than
> delivering
> >> the wrong content.  Avtar, can I get a copy of the
> atlassian-confluence.log
> >> file for yesterday?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >>
> >> Tony
> >>
> >> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Obara, Justin <jobara at ocadu.ca> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I've disabled the current mobile plugin. There is no longer a mobile
> >>> theme for our wiki. We should look into Tony's other suggestions. I'm
> not
> >>> sure who currently manages the licenses, perhaps that's done by Avtar.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks
> >>> Justin
> >>>
> >>> On Oct 16, 2014, at 4:19 AM, Tony Atkins <tony at raisingthefloor.org>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi, All:
> >>>
> >>> I didn't see any obvious fixes in the versions between what we're
> >>> running and 5.6 (the newest), but it may be worth upgrading longer
> term.
> >>> Shorter term, we should disable the plugin.
> >>>
> >>> As an alternative, there is another mobile plugin which is available
> >>> free for holders of open source licenses:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.refinedwiki.confluence.plugins.mobile
> >>>
> >>> Whomever is our technical contact for our current license should be
> able
> >>> to get them to issue a license for the plugin with very little effort.
> >>>
> >>> Even if we don't use their mobile plugin, it's worth getting in touch
> >>> with the vendor, they are one of the big players in theming Confluence.
> >>> Theme plugin developers are well placed to provide assistive solutions
> for
> >>> Confluence, especially those who are active in markets where
> accessibility
> >>> is a requirement.  I have heard that clients in Germany are staring to
> pay
> >>> good money to contractors to ensure that their Confluence instances
> meet
> >>> accessibility requirements on a case by case basis. A general solution
> >>> would be a big selling point.   Ideally there would be multiple
> vendors to
> >>> drive the prices down and quality up, which is why I have been pushing
> the
> >>> ideas with every theme vendor I know.  There are some who are not
> making
> >>> deep enough changes to the Confluence UI to help, but others who are
> very
> >>> close to releasing a general solution.
> >>>
> >>> As an example, Communardo (a German Atlassian partner) is planning to
> >>> release a plugin that adds themes that meet at least the accessibility
> >>> requirements of their local customers in Germany (I suspect they would
> be
> >>> meeting EU requirements, but that's one of the questions I want to ask
> >>> them).  They would like to demonstrate their work in progress on the
> 23rd
> >>> during the European afternoon.  Let me know if you're interested in
> >>> attending and giving them feedback.
> >>>
> >>> Anyway, setting aside the longer discussion about Confluence
> >>> accessibility, I am happy to help with the current problem in any way I
> >>> can: disabling the plugin, documenting the problem, contacting support,
> >>> installing alternate solutions.   If I can get access to the logs, I
> can do
> >>> a lot to at least document the problem as a bug report or support
> request.
> >>> Whomever is administering our instance, please feel free to get in
> touch.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Tony
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Tony Atkins <tony at raisingthefloor.org
> >
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hi, All:
> >>>>
> >>>> This is a plugin that is bundled with newer versions of Confluence
> (5.1
> >>>> and higher).  We are a bit out of date, I suspect that newer versions
> are
> >>>> tested with a wider range of mobile browsers.  Will do a quick bit of
> >>>> searching to confirm.
> >>>>
> >>>> For now, I understand that upgrading is a longer term process, and
> that
> >>>> we need an immediate solution.  The plugin can be trivially disabled
> by an
> >>>> admin (just search for mobile in the "add ons" control panel).  Happy
> to
> >>>> assist if it's not clear to whomever is working on this.
> >>>>
> >>>> Cheers,
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Tony
> >>>>
> >>>> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Steven Githens <swgithen at mtu.edu>
> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> I think it’s the mobile plugin.  When you search for the wiki on say,
> >>>>> mobile safari, the top hit is the wiki with a path of
> >>>>> /plugins/mobile/servlet/ something something something. If you
> manually
> >>>>> type in the wiki url so that mobile plugin version doesn’t get moved
> to the
> >>>>> top of the hits the regular page works fine.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Maybe we can uninstall or upgrade whatever plugin that is.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> -s
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Oct 15, 2014, at 9:27 AM, Obara, Justin <jobara at ocadu.ca> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Hi Colin,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I tried today. Got that error. Hit the retry button I think and now
> I
> >>>>> don't see it anymore. Not sure what caused it though.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Thanks
> >>>>>> Justin
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On Oct 15, 2014, at 9:17 AM, Clark, Colin <cclark at ocadu.ca> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Hi All,
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> When you visit the Fluid Project wiki on a mobile device (like an
> >>>>> iPhone), you get an error page saying "Oops! Something went wrong."
> It's
> >>>>> been like this for a while, and I'm not sure what is causing it. Can
> we
> >>>>> look into it and see if we can fix it? A lot of users have been
> complaining
> >>>>> recently.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Colin
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> ---
> >>>>>>> Colin Clark
> >>>>>>> Lead Software Architect,
> >>>>>>> Inclusive Design Research Centre, OCAD University
> >>>>>>> http://inclusivedesign.ca
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>
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