[Bark]

Hey folks. I've noticed that another vBulletin forum has a button at the top of the mobile page that allows you to view the desktop website instead of the mobile one. Since there are many features that are only available on the full site (hugs and thanks and visitor messages, to start), I think this would be a good feature to add.

[Shishkeberry]

I agree! I was just about to post about this. I hate the mobile version and I can't turn it off.

I feel thou I am missing a lot on the mobile version vs full. But I am really glad I have a version on my phone

[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.

[Bark]

Isn't it possible to "fool" the site into thinking you have a desktop and not displaying the mobile site? I don't mind if it's not optimized for a phone and you have to scroll everywhere: I know one vBulletin board without a mobile option at all and one with both options.

I'm assuming there's a line of code that checks your browser and thus offers up the correct version for you: wouldn't it be possible to, say, press a button that would override that check?

Sorry if I'm underestimating the work involved.

On the subject of phones, I'd heard of BlackBerry, and here it is. It is less powerful compared to the competition, has a smaller selection of apps, and frustrates me to hell at times, but I do like other things about it, like the keyboard (although I prefer the one on the Bold).

If you can afford awesomeness, the Lenovo x230t is pretty darn cool: laptop and tablet in one. Want....

[Perna]

The Lenovo does look good but I don't want Windows, I want Android; I'm so tired of Microsoft and ready to be done with them and use Google already for my browser. I have a Barnes and Noble Nook and looked at their new tablet in my consolidation considerations but it's the 7 instead of the 10 inch one and that's too much like a phone, my Blackberry screen driving me crazy as well as costing me an arm and a leg.

The "true" full sites don't fit well on a phone, you can imagine, and the cost to the phone user of all that non-workable (you get X's instead of images, for example) and need to scroll; you have to write a program to get things to adjust for the phone's size instead of the "full size" one can expect on a computer and not take up more "size" than 3G can handle for size as well as speed. Think about your phone data limitations "full" means more bandwidth (your phone does not have a zillion gigabytes of storage for programs AND data like your computer does); it's streamingish and the better your phone can do that, the more expensive it is for you; you want more expensive? :-) Looking at my own, un-rewritten-for-phones sites on my Blackberry screen, I almost get nauseous, the "result" is so not usable.

Think too about it as a computer program to make a web site on a computer versus a different program to make a web app on a phone; the web site is not quite the same as the web app, not just because of the operating systems with their different browsers (Microsoft and Apple versus phones/iPad or Android); a PC pretty much is accustomed to doing what Microsoft/Windows "decided" with their GUI and browser (remember the Explorer versus Netscape wars that Netscape lost; one use to have to design web sites to work on both browsers?) well, now you have a totally different technology; we're not talking just smaller, but wholly different to fit/work on phones and iPads/tablets. 3G (and starting on 4G) is not "cable"/dial-up/fios and does not work the same.

[Shishkeberry]

I just want to be able to see the full version. I use Opera Mini with the single column viewing so for most sites I don't have to scroll left or right. I might have to bust out my kindle and use boat browser since it has an option to "trick" websites into desktop mode, but I really prefer my phone.

[DocJohn]

If you post what kind of device you're using and want the full site enabled, we can edit the configuration to allow for that. We've just enabled the full site for Opera Mini now.

[AngelWolf3]

OH my GOSH that would be so great!!!!!! I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab (the original version..there is a number at the way bottom that says 10.11...I don't know if this is a version or something....)

I hope you can do this, I do enjoy being able to access the site on my tablet but definitely would LOVE the full site option (the mobile one doesn't show everything either!)

[Shishkeberry]

YEAH! You fixed it! Just the way I like it.

[Bark]

Lost my post and the Internet's acting up (the reception is horrible here). Anyway, as I meant to say, thanks DocJohn!

I'd love this option too, im using a Dell Streak running Android. Dont know if that will work for mine or if you need more info. But if you do try, then soo appreciated for the effort.

[Bark]

Originally Posted by Anika

I'd love this option too, im using a Dell Streak running Android. Dont know if that will work for mine or if you need more info. But if you do try, then soo appreciated for the effort.

I don't know if they should change it for the stock browser; Opera Mini is something you download, and if I want the mobile site, I can use the built-in browser. You can download Opera Mini for the Android, think. If you have something like Firefox or Dolphin (I think that's what it's called), I think it would be more likely for them to offer the option.

Not to mention Opera Mini makes it usable: you can set it so that everything fits your screen, and you don't need to scroll all over the place. It would be really bothersome to have to zoom in and out the whole time.

hmm ok thanks i'll see if it is available, I didn't think Opera Mini was available for droid, that's would be nice tho, I had an Iphone before and I liked that browser. I just got this phone. I don't have to zoom in and out tho, but maybe it is because this phone has a 5" screen, I dunno.

EDIT: Got it, thanks so much Bark! I didn't even think to use a different browser duh! I am just happy to have the full site on my phone because I use it so much, so thank you for the help.

[pegasus]

Hi DOCJOHN, I'm using a Rio II from Orange, I'm in the UK so I'm not sure if you'll be able to make it so I can view the site properly. It is a crappy phone but I can see other websites ok. Thanks..

I haven't got a clue what any of you are talking about?

I have a keyboard that seems to work sometimes.

all these technical terms I have never a hope of catching up makes me feel like even more of a misfit

got a stock mini opera orange android mark II superflux deflux semi mod reflux airborne hexflight diode nano compat 3.2 config master cylinder fruit bowl fresh tomato in the crisper.

...sorry...could not help myself


I know it's important for people to be able to conect...sorry

it just blows my mind how we gotta do it?!

..better sneak back into my little hole...bye bye

(sorry again this was purely self gratifying I do this when I don't understand things)

[pegasus]

Lolol! Dubblem!

Originally Posted by pegasus

Lolol! Dubblem!

wow I never expected that Peg...I felt guilty...

nasty feeling that one....

replaced by a warm uncomfortable but much more liked one...thanks

[seeker1950]

I use the Android from Verizon. I am able to access PC, and even write responses. Love it!

Originally Posted by pegasus

Lolol! Dubblem!

but seriously!...

I am pleased with my astro gas injected dynamo pre-cooled module integral satellite signature device.!

covers most atomic pre-designated zones according to co-valent adjustments I make at the molecular level...

so much easier...

the older model just had vibrations...some radioactive inconsistency in elemental co-ordinates...so annoying!

upper atmosphere tests were inconclusive so just gotta go with it for now

[seeker1950]

Originally Posted by dubblemonkey

but seriously!...

I am pleased with my astro gas injected dynamo pre-cooled module integral satellite signature device.!

covers most atomic pre-designated zones according to co-valent adjustments I make at the molecular level...

so much easier...

the older model just had vibrations...some radioactive inconsistency in elemental co-ordinates...so annoying!

upper atmosphere tests were inconclusive so just gotta go with it for now

LOL, brilliant and funny!

...I just like knowing you are around pegasus..."just a horse with wings"

I will say all kinds of crap to keep you interested..

hehe

I just like to know you are around...

this I need

I don't need much but....

I like it when you are around.



you arrive like a comet ...thankyou

I don't want to overdo it.....I can I better not I just like seeing your horsey alive and well

monkeys better swing now....in the white jungle...

Originally Posted by seeker1950

LOL, brilliant and funny!

hehe...I have intellectual accidents quite often...just give me a confusion and I will happily twist it into something I can grasp....and overdo it

I am happy with the mobile site I can bring up for the iPhone. The only thing I can't access that I know for certain of is the chat.

[pegasus]

Originally Posted by pegasus

Hi DOCJOHN, I'm using a Rio II from Orange, I'm in the UK so I'm not sure if you'll be able to make it so I can view the site properly. It is a crappy phone but I can see other websites ok. Thanks..

It's a NetFront Browser V3.5. Any chance of being able to have the real thing? Please! X