Jord, looks like you missed essential part of initial feature request or I made it not clear enough. The problem was not with smartphone per se, the problem with not so stable internet connections. As I wrote in initial feature request I met situation where long threads impossible to load over satellite/mobile network. It can be smartphone, Java phone, tablet or desktop PC in such location - no matter. Joe said that he have low bandwidth connection too. Well, dialup is completely another case (in modern times at least): it's usually quite stable, just slow. Satellite/mobile network can have quite high bandwidth, MUCH bigger than dial-up, btw. But it can be quite unstable in location with poor GSM/CDMA coverage.
Regarding mobile devices: yes, it's the good option to make special view for mobile devices. prefix m. in domain name would point to such version of site. For example my mail provider has m.mail.ru version of site. But, with some really long threads pagination much more convenient even with browsing from modern PC via wide ethernet channel. Especially if there is thread with "print screens" in it. ----- Original Message ----- From: Jorden van der Elst To: David Anderson Cc: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2012 2:43 AM Subject: Re: [boinc_dev] Feature request: add pages to long threads onwebsites On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Jorden van der Elst <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm wondering if this could be an added option, not something that > needs to be forced upon everyone. Or are we going to break everything > that worked without flaws for most everyone, for every whim someone > finds on his "apparently-not-so-smart-smartphone"? Sorry for the not-so-nice smart remark about the smart phones. But is it really necessary to wreck the current full-forum software to make it work on something smaller and not (so) fast? As an example, last week I was asked by the newspaper that I visit daily whether I was checking this with a PC or a phone and they gave me two links to choose from. Perhaps that that's an idea for this, run two forum software options, one for complete PCs/Macs/tablets and one for the lesser things as phones and what else there is these days? That when the user gets onto the forums for the first time, that he has to choose what to run: Forums for the Phone and possibly tablet, or forums for the PC and Mac. That this option is remembered, but that it can be unchecked in preferences in case its platform is somehow changed. Just thinking out loud here. -- -- Jord. _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address. _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
