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Let me start with a status update. Development is still ongoing and I am working the last of the IE kinks out. Here are screenshots of a development version of PM on Opera Mobile 12.00.35779, Opera Mobile - PM menu and Android 4.0.3 - PM menu. The major changes are a dropdown navigation menu and the page content resizes to fit the browser. This means mobile users are not going to have to zoom and scroll by default to see content. Also the above screen is one of four demo color schemes I am trying out for PM. Nothing has been set in stone.

The current problem is Internet Explorer and it's terrible html & css support. Lets start by looking at HTML5 Semantic elements. IE 6-8 have no support. The same goes for media queries. To get around these problems you either do not use these features (which all other modern browsers including IE 9.x support) or have conditionally loaded javascript for older IE versions.

The javascript library options explored so far are HTML5 Shiv and Modernizr (custom build with html5shiv v3.4, modernizr.load, media queries, css classes). Both appear to correct the IE problems and load the new design correctly.

In addition, to make the new navigation work on smaller screen devices 1 line of javascript had to be added for the selector menu to trigger correctly. Remember if you are using IE 9.x+ or just about anything else there are no external JS dependencies and only 1 line of inline JS.

The new screens, css, and js files have been uploaded to the github project page in case anyone is interested.

Edit: tye's comment raised a good point about what exactly am I asking the monks at large about.

So what do the fellow monks think of the navigation style on mobile phones?
Do you all like how I styled the above the fold to show the priority tasks and information (Site name, site section, search and then the navigation menu)?
Besides the addition of 'Jump to Nodelets' and 'Home' are there any menu items that should be added or deleted and why?

In reply to PM redesign: status update by kimmel

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