Hi, Reggie,

Although unsuccessful for the past year, I'll take the bait and plug my pet peeve once more : us ITT users who actually use the 770 to access it, at least part of the time :-)

I've always had two issues with ITT-as-a-mobile-user's site : one, the pretty page header takes a lot of vertical space, which means that on a screen like the 770's it's almost all you can see, and on every new page you need to scroll down first to see any actual content. Second, the vBulletin is HTML, graphics and javascript-heavy, which makes the tablet very slow to render the pages in Opera. Perusing the forums, in particular, with the constant back-and-forth between TOCs and threads, is a real pain.

True, when I first remarked on this, you were kind enough to add a "mobile" skin. But although it is very much faster, it is also so crippled functionally that it's not really more usable than the classic one on the tablet, and has not been upgraded since.

So as you're working on a visual upgrade, I'd like to put in my plea that you also make it a usability improvement for access by 770 users, which seems only natural. This could be either by making the main interface leaner and lighter so that it fits well in the tablet (like the oesf.org forums for instance), or by keeping the shiny-and-heavy main style but adding a feature-complete "mobile" skin that allows a reasonable use of the forums...

TIA,
fp