Browsing the website with mini opera.

epokh

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Browsing the website with mini opera.

« on: July 30, 2008, 07:48:32 AM »

I'm in the airport and browsing the website using mini opera on t-mobile. Pages are in average 20 kb. It's not so pleasant to browse it. I think we need a mobile version of the forum and the website. :-)


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Re: Browsing the website with mini opera.

« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2008, 10:59:33 AM »

Quote from: epokh on July 30, 2008, 07:48:32 AM

Mobile version of the forum is available at this URL www.handheldlearning.co.uk/mobile/ .
I agree with you. We consider creating full mobile version of this website (with articles, forum and all the rest of content). Hopefully we can present it soon. Instead of this, mobile version of forum is ready to use.


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Re: Browsing the website with mini opera.

« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2008, 12:57:47 PM »

It's a fair point and something we've often considered within our own resource limits.

Although there is, as Marcin points out, a lo-fi version of the forum for mobile devices with slow connections such as that provided by GPRS it's worth noting that when we did the recent upgrade the site was designed to be fully W3C compliant for HTML and CSS. We also decided not to use Flash.

The consequence is that although the site is quite demanding in terms of page loads the site operates on practically all standards compliant browsers that are now finding their way onto most smart phones (works great on an iPhone for example), PDAs, games consoles and of course traditional PC's. In terms of page load times we would hope that the mobile web for phones via EDGE, 3G and HSDPA will improve the experience considerably but granted this does make it a bit elitist for the time being!