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If you visit BC with your phone or PDA, please PM or comment here with some information to help me design a good phone-friendly version of the site.
What's your resolution? Especially screen width in pixel/characters?
What operating system are you using?
Are you willing to help me make sure BC works on your device?
Any suggestions to improve the experience?
When it's ready, there will be a button to go to the "mobile" version of the site which can then be bookmarked for ease of use. If possible, I'll try to detect that a mobile device is being used and go there automatically.
Hugs,
Erin
using phone on BC
I have accessed with an Iphone and that worked really well no need for adjustments due to service issues with AT&T I switched to a blackberry and it works but not nearly as well don't know what to suggest because I think my issues are related to the blackberry's OS and I am no expert so I have no ideas but the Iphone was great as is
phone/pda
I use an IPhone, so I have good resolution (480x320), the only problem for me is the screen is small for reading. I can go to a landscape mode that is good for reading, plus increasing the font size. I don't know about the other phones, but I don't need a mobile site to use BC as long as you don't get into anything safari can't handle directly. Thanks for asking.
Don't know if it counts
but for almost a year and a half -- about november 2007 through march 2009 -- I was visiting the site almost daily using a PSP. Even on the very limited resolution of the PSP screen, the site displayed fine, though I had to deactivate all the ads and couldn't read some of the longer stories because of the limitations on the PSP's RAM. My PSP has died, so I can't test out how the site looks and runs now that you've added a few of the new features, like the quick links and things, but I don't imagine they would put enough of an additional stress on the system to prevent me looking at the site.
Melanie E.
BC comes up
fine on my I phone. Resolution is good, I can read whatever I choose, even sign in and out.
LG Tritan (LG UX-840)
262K Color TFT, 240 x 400 Pixels, 3.00â€
The OS is unknown.
Sure, I'd be glad to help.
Here are the browser headers as reported by http://xhaus.com/headers
Accept text/html,application/xhtml+xml,*/*
Accept-Charset utf-8,utf-16,us-ascii,iso-8859-1
Accept-Encoding gzip,deflate
Accept-Language en;q=1.0,en,*;q=0.5,en
Cache-Control max-age=43200
Connection keep-alive
Agent Mozilla/5.0(compatible;Teleca Q7;Brew 3.1.5;U;en)240x400 LGE AX840
X-Wap-Profile "http://www.alltel.net/uaprof/lg/ax840/ax840.xml"
Hugs!
Jenna
Phone/PDA
Not sure what you need, but using a blackberry 8700 it renders fine in the bb browser, but I usually use Opera mini and don't have any issuesm. I know it isn't a speed demon, but it is probably just the ads loading as when on dial-up it sticks at loading some of the ads. Let me know what you want totest out and I will check it out
Diana
eeepc
I use my EEEpc from class to read... but that probably doesnt count... though the screen is quite tiny on it. Resolution auto ajusts down and its readable.
Alyssa
My 2 coppers
I am only making suggestions based on observations from personal experience and using outside data as reference. Please take what I say only as suggestion and not as commands or word of law.
My old phone absolutely Hated this site.... it was a Moto Q9c with Windows Mobile 6.
I have a blackberry Tour now and it looks okay for the most part. The tour has a ridiculous HD screen resolution, it's almost as many pixels as my desktop, just crushed down to a 3" screen.
It starts out showing the whole page and allows you to zoom in and scroll around as needed. It is impossible to read anything at normal rez except the title lines on the main page, and once into a story, you need to zoom in and then scroll back and forth to read lines.
If the page was plain text format in which to read stories, it would re-parse the documents to wrap for my phone. You would likely need to make a separate page to do it that way. Click here for standard and over here for the mobile-friendly version.
"If there are any Psychics in the room, Please raise My hand." - Emo Philips, Comedian
Mobile Theme
There's now a Mobile friendly theme for BCTS. At least, it's supposed to be mobile friendly. :) It's called Mobile, and you can switch to it through the My Account menu item. I will be making that easier to do as I work this up over the next week or so.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
PDA
BC comes up just fine on my IPAQs hx2495and hx2755 using Win Mobile 5.0.
Thanks for all your good work.
Thanks
Helen
Smart Phone
Yes, I'm a little slow, lots on my mind these days.
I've used several devices over the years. My favorite is still my Dell Axim X51V. Yes, I know it's obsolete, but it still works well and I do most of my writing with it; great for those spur of the moment ideas.
Seeing more and more time at BC is my smart phone, Verizon XV6900. I can access from anywhere and the site looks good. The three columns become one continuous column; left, middle, right. My only recommendation is to move the login and password field for non logged in users to the top of the left column. Once a week when I have to login, I have to scroll all the way to the bottom. Of course I do get a quick look at everything on the front page on my way down.
I haven't tried the mobile version as yet, I don't know if I want to be changing my selection back and forth all the time; mobile for phone, standard for laptop or desktop (it takes a lot of computers to keep me happy). Is there a problem with having two user accounts? Something like 'Penny' and 'Pennys phone'? Just a thought.
WinMobile here
I'm also on a Verizon xv6900, running WinMobile 6-ish. The browser is not great on the device, not your fault, in that it won't do the cool "scale-and-zoom" to allow you to navigate at high level and zoom in where you will. Having used the site on the phone, it renders OK, but the login is definitely hard to find since it re-columns into a single LOOOONG column. I end up usually letting it ride as a guest on the phone just checking for stories to deal with on my laptop.
I've stopped using paper books completely for the last 4 years since I went to PDA/phones and couldn't be happier. For the stories on this site, I just scrape the story out of the browser (on the laptop), drop it into Word and then use MobiPocket to translate into a PRC/MOBI file and copy to my eReader folder on my phone. It's not the easiest thing ever but it does work well. But then I'm a total geek, both personally and professionally lol.
BTW, I have a TON of TG stories in word, text or Mobi formats (which incidentally is useable on the Kindle and others from what I read) I can certainly help if anyone needs it with respect to the eBook topic, as I've spent some time learning how that all works!
~abenderx~
Thanks for the info
As I get the opportunity, I will make the site friendlier for mobile apps and every bit of info helps.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.