Last modified: 2013-01-18 20:54:14 UTC
Some articles (such as today's en.wp featured article, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon) have large inline images; in the case of Nixon, they're set at 600px wide. This causes problems in the mobile app, but not in the way I expected. Rather than have the image extend off the side of the screen, or forcing the whole image to be smaller, it keeps the original *height* but compresses the width. The result is that a 600x500px image becomes a distorted ~480x500px one (I'm testing this on a device with a 480px wide screen, using the 1.3.2 Android app) Quite a rare problem, this! Would it be possible for the app to handle unusually wide images by reducing them in size proportionally, rather than just in one dimension? This seems to be the way most mobile browsers handle the situation.
I've just been pointed to https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43425 - this is the same issue, and marked resolved, but apparently only fixed the mobile site rather than the app.
We won't do much further work on the PhoneGap-based apps in favor of native apps; using updated common styles with the mobile site should resolve this issue in the future app.
