No BCB love for PDA's?

by BLW Believes Esq. on Mar 18, 2008 6:07 PM CDT

Al,

Long time BCB member, but with the new site I changed my screen name. Almost every morning during my time on L train riding to the loop, I go to bleedcubbieblue.com via my Motorola Q pda.

The old site had no problem loading on my phone and I could even easily open any pictures, graphics, links etc. The new format is wrecking havoc on my PDA. The page is gigantic (takes forever to scroll through), slow to load, fuzzy pictures and the graphics mostly disabled.

Most importantly.....the column of "fanposts" are not included. I can read Al's posts, but really nothing else.

I am wondering if there are going to be any changes to accomodate those who are addicted to BCB via their cell phones? Or, does anyone else in this community know of any other way to make the site look better on my phone? Like I said the old site format was identical to what I see on my computer at work in home.

Either way, I will always read the site on my other computers but the PDA is a nice added place to catch up on the new posts. Again, thanks for the great site Al...it is always a "must read" every morning.

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Can't help with your PDA but....

I sure do like your avatar.

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by tucsoncubsfan on Mar 18, 2008 6:13 PM CDT reply actions

Me neither....

But I agree with tucson

by Soup on Mar 18, 2008 7:59 PM CDT up reply actions

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another vote for that

by Shanghai Badger on Mar 19, 2008 11:04 AM CDT up reply actions

great question..

..as someone who travels quite a bit, I was hoping the 2.0 migration included a PDA friendly format...

Let me get back to you, will ya, Charlie? I got a guy on the other line asking about some white walls.

by JB 23 on Mar 18, 2008 6:17 PM CDT reply actions

Try installing the latest version

of the Opera Mini browser. I installed version 4.0 recently and it 'sreally good. The new BCB works just fine, so far (at least for reading. Dunno if I'd bother posting using a phone).

Why does everybody stand up and sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" when they're already there? ~Larry Anderson

by JohnM on Mar 18, 2008 6:24 PM CDT reply actions

good suggestion

Opera Mini works best with a touchscreen but it should be a better solution than using IE.

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by Will23 on Mar 19, 2008 7:23 AM CDT up reply actions

I don't have a touchscreen

but the little joystick on my Sony Ericsson phone helps navigate around the page, and the new version of Mini lets you select and zoom in on any area of the page, or any link, etc.

Why does everybody stand up and sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" when they're already there? ~Larry Anderson

by JohnM on Mar 19, 2008 10:09 AM CDT up reply actions

In the migration thread

The web techs said they wanted to make a mobile version, and it should be coming eventually. I hope.

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by sanantonecub on Mar 18, 2008 6:32 PM CDT reply actions

Send this request to

bugreport@sbnation.com

Let them know. Thanks.

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by Al Yellon on Mar 18, 2008 7:11 PM CDT reply actions

iPhone Works Good

It displays 100% properly on the iPhone, just have to zoom in to read the articles. But that's to be expected for non-optimized sites.

by McCarron on Mar 18, 2008 7:49 PM CDT reply actions

Fanboys...

unite!!! I can't WAIT for the SDK come June...

Dan

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by dtpollitt on Mar 19, 2008 12:07 AM CDT up reply actions

Hopefully they can go mobile. I'm with ya on this one.

I'm drunk......and it shows.....

by Keystone80435 on Mar 18, 2008 8:05 PM CDT reply actions

it's high on our list

We'll definitely be tackling a mobile version in the future, once we've rolled out the new platform to all the existing sites and optimized the existing full version of the site. Thanks everyone for your patience.

The site looks good as-is on the iPhone, best I can tell, but we may try to offer a slimmed down iPhone-on-the-go version as well as a mobile version for other phones and PDAs.

I'd also be curious to know what mobile devices people are commonly using.

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by Ryan Gantz on Mar 18, 2008 9:11 PM CDT reply actions