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Management => Site Rules, Announcements and Suggestions => Suggestions => Topic started by: gabba on March 09, 2013, 12:56:13 AM

Title: Accessing the forum on mobile and portable devices
Post by: gabba on March 09, 2013, 12:56:13 AM

One of these should help you out. They won't allow you to see the shoutbox however, and they aren't separate websites

http://www.localweather.net.nz/smf/index.php?wap
http://www.localweather.net.nz/smf/index.php?wap2
http://www.localweather.net.nz/smf/index.php?imode

There are no smarts built into the forum to determine device type and perform a redirect, although it probably can be done. If there is enough interest I could look into it further. If you like that view though, then it's probably just as easy to bookmark the URL in your phones browser.

Without the wap / wap2 / imode variables, the forum is useable in a browser on a phone, but barely. Tapatalk has always been the preferred method of accessing this forum via mobile devices, so although we recognised the need for mobile access, we haven't delved too much into the various methods of providing it, since Tapatalk already does a good job.

I access the site regularly on my iPad and it's quite readable to my eyes (I know others struggle with it), but very occasionally I find I'm experiencing fat finger syndrome - more to do with the smaller screen and the way the page is laid out than anything else (ie lines of links too close together). Tapatalk is also available for iOs devices