Comment 2 for bug 1420408

Daniel, fantastic work, thanks so much!

We are planning to have the FAQ both online on help.ubuntu.com and on the phone as an app. We decided to give the ability to use the app also when offline or when there is a not so good connection.

So to answer the question, I think the app needs to work even when there is no connection. However, that shouldn't be a problem if we serve the CSS locally.

Right now the app has got two themes:
- phone (to be used in the app, based on the HTML UI toolkit theme)
- web (to be used on help.u.c [1], based on the Ubuntu Web guidelines)

While we're mostly there with the web theme, we've been wondering for a while what to do with the phone theme. It seems if the text is outside an html widget (i.e. dropped in the MainView as we do right now), it will need custom CSS to define margins and other styles.

I liked the idea to have a native phone style so that it's more integrated in the rest of the UI. However, what you've done here is to merge the two themes, which might also be a good idea.

What do you think? Does it make sense to add the custom CSS to the phone theme, or rather to make it more like the Ubuntu Web Guidelines?

[1] proof of concept: http://people.canonical.com/~dpm/help-app/web/index.en-us.html