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Re: frustrated with using ITT from a tablet!

I have a css file that works well unfortunately the attachment system won't let me attach it here :confused:

I'll try uploading it somewhere and then linking to it.

It makes ITT much easier to navigate on the small device.

Re: frustrated with using ITT from a tablet!

It is rather ironic that one of the best forums for the NIT is one of the worst as far as browsing it with the NIT. You would think it should be one of the best!

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Originally Posted by benny1967 (Post 198035)

... which would be a very elegant solution I'd recommend for other sites, but not for ITT.

I believe it's more than a technical problem. It's the emotional message of "your tablet doesn't cope with the real internet, that's why we need to send you to a simpler version for your simple client"... this doesn't fit well with Nokia's marketing for these devices.

The site should look the same on the Tablet as it does on any desktop PC. Never make users feel they don't get "the real thing" when browsing with their tablets.

I don't think most people that use this site regularly really care emotionally if our tablets don't cope with the real internet. I would be happy if it just worked well. Real internet or fake :)

Sarcasm aside, what I am trying to say is that I think most forum users know the limitations of the NIT and having to browse an optimized forum isn't going to upset anyone.

Re: frustrated with using ITT from a tablet!

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Originally Posted by sic0048 (Post 198079)

Sarcasm aside, what I am trying to say is that I think most forum users know the limitations of the NIT and having to browse an optimized forum isn't going to upset anyone.

Certainly not.

It's just that I think that a site so devoted to the tablets should also do its best to promote them, to make them look good. - Transporting the message of "not good enough for the real internet" ist not the kind of promotion I think of ;)

Re: frustrated with using ITT from a tablet!

Ok, here is a complete copy of my chrome directory. This is for people comfortable with mucking with the terminal and altering your microb settings. It will screw with things like google maps and some google mashups, feel free to delete those lines from the userContent.css.

Re: frustrated with using ITT from a tablet!

Here is what is looks like under my chrome. It's amazin what you can do with a little bit of css.

This is right after loading the main form page and the general section. I have not scrolled at all, the tops of the pages have been wiped out by the CSS.

Re: frustrated with using ITT from a tablet!

Oooh, that screenshot looks awesome. I think I'm going to have to learn this 'css' thing. Thanks for the chrome starter-kit, brontide.

Re: frustrated with using ITT from a tablet!

Hmmm.

This CSS thing is fascinating, if confusing.

I dabble with web design, and am sort of comfortable with CSS in that context. I never considered applying CSS to a browser. Are the two related or is this a case of an overloaded operator <css> ?

Will download and then try to read and understand!

Thanks Brontide;

Steve

Re: frustrated with using ITT from a tablet!

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Originally Posted by stevecrye (Post 198266)

You can overlay additional css command to everything, a domain, or a url. I use this to turn elements on or off as well as adjusting the site to better fit the tablet.

Re: frustrated with using ITT from a tablet!

i would be quite happy with the all white mobile skin, if someone could fix it so that it would put "reply to" links on all posts, not just those i make...

Re: frustrated with using ITT from a tablet!

CSS and tables is murder on performance. Especially when your CSS is the crummy IE-friendly kind.

I advise using proper more targeted CSS selectors, seeing if the board can output non-table layout code and adding in the /IE7/ script.
I've had stunning success with this javascript "suite" all the way down to IE5.5....

The way most people have gotten themselves into using CSS these days (due to IE), you can totally see why the browser would croak on all the instructions. I cringe thinking of the thread graph*...

* Were you able to make one ;)