Post 4449295 - (Mobile-Friendly website, anyone?)

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Mobile-Friendly website, anyone?

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Do you think there should be a mobile-friendly version of WP?

Yes

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15%

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Total Votes : 19

bcousins
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Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 10:26 pm Post subject:

Cornflake wrote:

tsukaima wrote:

I would love to see support for the Tapatalk forum app which is available on both Android and iPhone... There are a few forum software that support it natively, but if the WP software doesn't maybe it could be hacked in?

Not the current version, unfortunately - it's far too old.

Here, Lemme be the first to call bull on this.

<link rel="alternative stylesheet" href="mobile.css" type="text/css">

All you really need is a new stylesheet defining the widths, and you are right to go.

Unless I have missed something here..

Nim
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Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 12:45 am Post subject:

nat4200 wrote:

Nim wrote:

ocdgirl123 wrote:

The site does not very well on my iPhone.

Well, its an Iphone. Thats to be expected.

Why would you expect this? Safari is a fairly capable browser in my experience (even if I don't use it myself) and the iOS webbrowser is pretty close to Safari.
NB: Google Chrome is based on "webkit" which is the HTML engine from Safari (which is derived from Konqueror, the open-source webbrowser from the KDE desktop environment)

@ocdgirl123: What about the site doesn't work well? What model iPhone are you using?

Nim wrote:

The screenshot above seems to be of Opera browser?

No, it's a Firefox derivative.

Nim wrote:

But anyhoo... I'd enjoy it if the menu's where touch screen friendly. You can't really mouse over and click to go to the forums on a touch device. You have to go to the main page and click on a recent post then work backwards to the main directory.

Actually on the main page you can click on the underlined panel heading: "Wrong Planet - Asperger and Autism Community Forums" (that heads the recents post panel displayed on the right of that page)

Nim wrote:

Besides that I notice the share buttons have become quite irritating and I accidentally share my posts with my facebook (or used to anyways). But with the new share buttons being so close to the places I need to click I sometimes hit them and get sidetracked.

But I'm guessing accidentally clicking drives revenue, so... I suppose I don't really blame the owner. shrug

Accidentally clicking on an ad might bring in ad revenue for the site; but I don't think the "social networking" buttons generate any (ie. Facebook won't pay for "likes", and Twitter doesn't doesn't pay sites to encourage "tweets"). Instead these benefit the site is by driving users to promote the site to their "followers"/"friends", potentially bringing more people here (and they might generate revenue as additional viewers of the advertisements).

-Iphone bad. Don't really agree with anything they do.. lack of functionality. High costs to own, they tend to block apps that cause competition with their own products (evi).

-Could have sworn its opera as I've seen the layout prior, but I could have sworn opera. Although I have used dolphin/the new firefox so maybe I've become confused. - Actually now that I think of it opera didn't have such a clean interface... I wish firefox would get flash support tho.

-Thankyou! That was quite helpful. I just looked and that was staring me right in the face, ha.

-The new sharing bar is "sharethis" I was unsure why as it seems confusing/irritating and causes a lot of issues such as popups and such. Figured it would have had to be money related. Although it was a lot easier to post *accidentally* to your facebook through the simple old "like" button.