Hi,

Anybody besides me thinks that is hard to use this Forum on a mobile system?

I tried to navigate using my Galaxy Tab 3 - 7", and VERTICALLY it's almost impossible to click on the right Topic without zoom in. Now I imagine how it work on 4.5" mobile phone screens?

Couldn't we create a new interface focusing the mobile? What do you think?

PS: Sorry my english.

Matheus.

On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 12:22:23AM +0100, MattCoder wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Anybody besides me thinks that is hard to use this Forum on a mobile system?
> 
> I tried to navigate using my Galaxy Tab 3 - 7", and VERTICALLY it's almost impossible to click on the right Topic without zoom in. Now I imagine how it work on 4.5" mobile phone screens?

IIRC, it's just a matter of writing up a separate CSS stylesheet for mobile devices (make buttons bigger, single-column layout, etc.), and linking to it in the HTML with the appropriate tag for "mobile". Mobile browsers should be able to pick it up then, without needing to change how the non-mobile site works.


> Couldn't we create a new interface focusing the mobile? What do you think?
[...]

Pull requests are always welcome. :)


T

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On Wednesday, 27 November 2013 at 23:36:40 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> Pull requests are always welcome. :)

If possible, do it in a "responsive design" style, the same way the forum already is quite responsive to window resizes, hiding the sidebar, etc.

On 2013-11-28 00:35, H. S. Teoh wrote:

> IIRC, it's just a matter of writing up a separate CSS stylesheet for
> mobile devices (make buttons bigger, single-column layout, etc.), and
> linking to it in the HTML with the appropriate tag for "mobile". Mobile
> browsers should be able to pick it up then, without needing to change
> how the non-mobile site works.

It's never that easy. Especially if the site wasn't built for that in the first place.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

On Thursday, 28 November 2013 at 07:37:58 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2013-11-28 00:35, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>
>> IIRC, it's just a matter of writing up a separate CSS stylesheet for
>> mobile devices (make buttons bigger, single-column layout, etc.), and
>> linking to it in the HTML with the appropriate tag for "mobile". Mobile
>> browsers should be able to pick it up then, without needing to change
>> how the non-mobile site works.
>
> It's never that easy. Especially if the site wasn't built for that in the first place.

True true. Web design is only easy in theory, but when it comes to implementing it, arrggghhhh!

But I agree with the original post. It's a bit tricky to hit the right thread. I always have to zoom in and scroll on my mobile (cell phone). However, it's not a big deal, imo.

On 28/11/13 00:22, MattCoder wrote:
> Anybody besides me thinks that is hard to use this Forum on a mobile system?

Generally I find that reading is OK but writing posts is tricky -- mostly because it's a PITA to select and cut quoted text using a small touchscreen device.

The main usability issue I encounter browsing on a phone screen is to do with jumping forward/back in a thread.  Things would be much nicer if first/previous/next/last thread page links were available at the top as well as bottom of thread pages.  It's annoying having to scroll down all the way to find them, particularly if there are a lot of long posts.

These problems reinforce each other a bit, because commenting via a touch device makes one more likely to quote all of the previous post, which makes posts more likely to be long, which means one has to scroll far more to navigate a thread, which means it takes more time and so one is less likely to be patient and cut unnecessary quoted text, which means ... etc.

On Wednesday, 27 November 2013 at 23:22:24 UTC, MattCoder wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Anybody besides me thinks that is hard to use this Forum on a mobile system?
>
> I tried to navigate using my Galaxy Tab 3 - 7", and VERTICALLY it's almost impossible to click on the right Topic without zoom in. Now I imagine how it work on 4.5" mobile phone screens?
>
> Couldn't we create a new interface focusing the mobile? What do you think?
>
> PS: Sorry my english.
>
> Matheus.

You really want to write useful (read more than few sentences) reply using mobile phone? That is really masochistic, IMHO.

On Thursday, 28 November 2013 at 14:35:55 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote:
> You really want to write useful (read more than few sentences) reply using mobile phone? That is really masochistic, IMHO.

It was OK until they stopped manufacturing h/w keyboards sliders :(

On topic: probably nice improvement, but I am not really that bothered by zooming.

On Thursday, 28 November 2013 at 14:35:55 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote:
> You really want to write useful (read more than few sentences) reply using mobile phone? That is really masochistic, IMHO.

In fact I wasn't talking only about reading replies, I was talking about the overall interface, like going through the pages or clicking on the topics links. So, if is very annoying using on a 7" inches tablet (Vertically) imagine doing that on 4" or 4.5" phones.

The thing is, actually there is no style for mobile devices, and I just think that it would be nice to have one.

Matheus.

On 28/11/13 16:18, MattCoder wrote:
> In fact I wasn't talking only about reading replies, I was talking about the
> overall interface, like going through the pages or clicking on the topics links.
> So, if is very annoying using on a 7" inches tablet (Vertically) imagine doing
> that on 4" or 4.5" phones.

I don't find reading particularly annoying on my phone screen, apart from the aforementioned issue with previous/next page links.  But of course a custom forum UI for touch devices would be nice.

This really is a "patches please" situation, though.