Does anyone else find these two Web sites, dedicated to the Internet tablet devices, a screaming pain to use with those devices? Shouldn't both those sites be optimized for the devices they support, and/or shouldn't there be an optimized version.

could you be specific? I use ITT from my n800 all the time, in fact right now even?

Whats the problem?

I use ITT in full screen mode. A lot less scrolling.

There is a mobile version. At the bottom left of the page (not on the home page) there are several choices in a drop down menu. I think I use mobile 2 on my ITT now. The browser should remember your choice, too. As for maemo.org.... Not sure what to say. I think the application download section is optimized for the ITs, but it's a pain to find anything. I think they need to add a browse all selection. Of course, maybe they have by now - I haven't looked for a while...

Yes. The main screen is ridiculous on my N800 and I've complained about it before. Really a website for Internet Tablets ought not to choke an N800 (due to the adverts) given that the IT's are supposed to be full web experiences not in need of mobile versions.

Certainly the ITT forum can be viewed on the N800 using a less bandwidth hungry style chosen using the Style chooser at the bottom left of the page - I use "Mobile II" myself and while it's not perfect (and somewhat psychedelic) it's a better option than the full-fat version when viewing on the N800 itself (particularly over a 3G or GSM phone connection).

The problem I have is that the flash applets are a CPU hog. The sites would be more usable if a plug-in like NoScript in Firefox were available.

You can use a greasemonkey script for it.

Not sure if this is what the original poster is complaining about, but one thing I've noticed (and found annoying) is that when the front page of ITT loads, it is rendered, then cleared, then re-rendered.
This drags down the 770 quite a bit... and it's annoying when you think it's done and try and click on one of the threads, the screen clears, then re-renders again and you have to scroll back to where you were to actually click on the link you wanted (that you thought you already clicked on). At that point, something (javascript?) is hogging the CPU so much that there is a several second delay between the click and any feedback at all.

I don't think I have much problem with maemo.org though... 'cept maybe the planet maemo page. That's not maemo.org's fault though, that's all of the tablet-unfriendly content being posted there (like the gigantic animated GIFs recently, or heavy flash stuff).

Actually, that's one thing that has annoyed me...
I visit maemo.org's planet maemo page more from my 770 than from regular computers.
I don't think the people posting in their blogs think about that, as every video I've seen has been a youtube video and not something directly viewable on the tablets.
I want to watch them... scratch that - I want to download them and watch them on the train (when I have no net access). I tried using the vidconvert bookmarklet (online streaming conversion), but it only works from the youtube page itself, not from a webpage that has embedded the video.

OK, done venting...

the mobile version is a one way street on the mobile devise, you can only go to mobile version, to go to different version, one has to sign and sign back in. I am not quite sure why is that. I think the catalogue is the browse all selection, it is only available for 2006catalogue though, the 2007catalogue is NOT available the last time I look, a week back.


bun