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Originally Posted by Perna
The complexity of programming a mobile, full-board option well for iPhone/Pad and Android (at a minimum) (the site is gigantic, not just the vBulletin shell for these forums and is proprietary software making it all work together "seamlessly") is great and this is a non-profit site with little or no monies coming from its members and visitors and has a very small staff, many of them, volunteers. I'm sure improvements will be made eventually but I wouldn't hold my breath for "soon".
When DocJohn primarily accesses the site on his mobile, I'll know it is time to go all mobile 
I'm thinking of getting a tablet in November, coordinating a new, "vanilla" phone (remind me when my 2-yr. contract expires in November that choosing a phone because you have "heard of" (Blackberry) the name is not a good decision), ten inch tablet, and Skype phone number and not even using my laptop anymore :-) Never mind that I can't type well on the touch screen and will have to buy an add-on keyboard for the tablet since I type way more than I text. Ah, the exigencies of evolving technologies. |
It's not really a programming issue at all. If a mobile device supports viewing full sites that are non mobile, then it's just a matter of making it so that the mobile device does not switch to mobile version. I'm not sure if this would be soemthing that the site can add an option for or if it's a setting on the mobile device to not use the mobile version for web browsing. Maybe both are possibilities, but even if the PC site added an option to disable opening in mobile version, it's not a huge programming issue, simply put it reads the browser useragent version and detects what browser it is. I'm guessing PC reads a useragent version that shows it is mobile and it serves up the site appropriately. The option just needs to exist to turn this detection off at the user's discretion.