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01370: List the features that would make a great mobile wiki platform

Description: Let's identify what features and changes to the core would make PmWiki the world's first great mobile wiki platform. It's probably a bigger evolution than just providing a better skin for mobile devices (PITS:01369).

This opinion piece in the June 20, 2015 New York Times (http://nyti.ms/1K1eHKn), which suggests that even Wikipedia is at risk from the movement toward mobile computing, may provide some motivation to stretch our imaginations. - RandyB June 25, 2015, at 04:58 PM

In additional to the roadmap?:

• header and footer content as wiki pages (rather than defined in template)
• sidebar that on a mobile device can be swiped (left/right) in and out
• header and footer that can be swiped in and out
• contents explicit in template or wiki pages, rather than generated at run-time
  • e.g. where possible CSS to be in files, and thus maintainable by webmasters rather than generated by recipes (and only maintainable by authors)
  • e.g. when PmWiki generates the content substituted in the template after <!--PageText--> it adds a further <div id=wikitext>, the div itself should be in the template
• use relative sizing everywhere (i.e. rem, vh, and vw, vmin, and vmax)
• ubiquitous section edit
• wiki as a single page website (implies lots of ajax)
• ability to roll up any section (as defined by headings) or swipe away
• case insensitive
• wysisyg (may imply a clean up of syntax to make consistent)

See also