I recently did a poll at my main site which determined that about 30% of respondents use a mobile device to view the site. (This doesn't equal 30% of the page views, though, because they use regular browsers as well.) So this got me to thinking about testing and stuff, and I realized the dilemma. I can download and use pretty much any browser I want on my various computers to test skins, but I can't really get the exact browsers used on mobile devices.
So I was thinking maybe to start a thread, and if people with mobile devices are willing they can offer to check other people's skins for them. I'd be willing to do at least a cursory check for others.
I've got a T-Mobile G1. It's Android based. I don't actually have a SIM card for it so I can't say if pages load fast or slow on a cell network, but it has wifi so I can access the net that way. (It's a weirdo developer version, but I don't think that should affect the browser.)
This would be very helpful. I created a 'mobile' skin, but I have no way to tell if it's actually suitable to use on mobile devices.
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Where's it at? I can look at it.
I've like to see it also. I put a cheat link to a mobile version of my site which uses google to "mobile size" my site.
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Mucking around in eFiction since circa 2001 (ver. 1.0)
Now running v.3
http://www.jonasbrothersfanfictionarchive.com/index.php?skin=mobile
It was more designed towards iPhone browsers and the like, but the basic gist was just me trying to put up the bare minimum necessary for the site to work while making it not too ugly.
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Very nice, Kali.
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I checked out your skin, Kali, and it looks really good. Generally the Android browser doesn't wrap much and displays things pretty faithfully. You might have to move to the left and right to see the entire width of a page, though. (It wraps words, but not like layout content boxes, so it does wrap the site slogan on one of my skins so that it covers the menu links, making them hard to hit.) In the case of your mobile skin, everything there was displayed. Like, I didn't have to move side-to-side to see anything on the edges. (Of course, there was vertical scrolling.) I think that's pretty much the best mobile skin I've seen.
Ah, cool. Thanks for checking it out.
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Hey Kali,
I don't know if this helps at all, and I don't know what mobile devices others use, but most of your skins are very iphone friendly. In fact the ones I've used (murder and sensible) on my site view beautifully on the iphone without any modifications.
Just wondering, Kali, do you have any plans to release?
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I totally thought I had. Oops.
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Haha, may I missed it...
I wonder if it's possible to make eFic mobile-friendly. I want a mobile icon on Google. ¬.¬
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I have updated our website yesterday and everything works fine but now someone is complaining that when ever they open the website on their iphone they don't get the popup warnings and that multi-chapter stories don't get past the first chapter which wasn't a problem in 3.5.1. according to them.
If I add Kali's mobile skin to the site and someone opens the website on an iphone would it automatically use the mobile skin? And if you open the website on a computer it would just use the regular skin? I don't own an iphone myself so I have no way of testing or knowing if it works or not.
The link to the website is http://nfacommunity.com/
No, the mobile skin is a choice by the user. You might be able to use a script to test for a mobile site and then auto-load that skin, but obviously that would require a modification of eFiction.
The other problem sounds like more of a problem with the phone/browser rather than eFiction.
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The other problem has indeed been solved by a javascript update of some kind. Thanks for the answer.
Maybe I might venture into finding a way to mod the script.
