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Cardboard mobile site - CompSci87 - 08-01-2013

For the last couple of days, the Cardboard has come up on my 10" Android tablet and Android phone with a different page design, apparently "optimized" for mobile.

The regular Cardboard design works fine on both devices (though not quite perfectly). The new mobile design is awful on both.

On my phone, the mobile design comes up with a microscopic font that is absolutely illegible. If I double-tap on the screen -- an Android feature that enlarges the text and re-flows the page -- the font increases to a readable (but still small) size, and of course I can zoom it still larger. However, quote boxes do not re-flow, so they stick way off the side of the screen and I have to scroll back and forth for every line in order to read the entire quote.

That problem is similar on my tablet, although the initial font is (barely) legible there. Also (at least on the tablet), the design wastes a ton of screen real estate with blank borders, etc.

The up/down respect voting buttons, vote totals, and some other elements are hidden in the mobile design. I suppose this is ostensibly to make more room so that the text can be larger and legible on small screens. But as noted above, the extra room is instead either wasted or filled with text in an even smaller font than the regular design gives.

I did notice a tiny, color-on-color link hidden at the bottom of the page to go to the regular design. This helps me, but sometimes clicking on a link takes me back to the mobile design and I have to click the bottom of page link again. Also, of course, I'm sure the mobile site can't be a good experience for anyone (unless it looks way better on an iPhone, perhaps), so think everyone would click this link if they could find it. In other words, the mobile site is worse than useless.

Re: Cardboard mobile site - admin - 08-01-2013

Mobile layout changed back to the original. (Plus, I don't think the mobile detection software should have included full-sized tablets.) I'll look at another solution. In the meantime, phone users can click the WAP2 link at the bottom of the page for an optimized text-only version.

Re: Cardboard mobile site - FarmBoy - 08-01-2013

I was going to post something as well. The web site is basic text so I don't see the value in having a mobile site personally. However, the on in use drops too much of the information I like about the main site (primarily, when was the last comment posted and by whom).

Re: Cardboard mobile site - CompSci87 - 08-01-2013

(08-01-2013, 09:36 AM)Administrator link Wrote:Mobile layout changed back to the original. (Plus, I don't think the mobile detection software should have included full-sized tablets.) I'll look at another solution. In the meantime, phone users can click the WAP2 link at the bottom of the page for an optimized text-only version.

Thanks!

Re: Cardboard mobile site - Hank 91 - 08-01-2013

I noticed this also, but the odd thing was that while it would always start out with the mobil version on my iPhone, as soon as I navigated anywhere it would switch back. Consequently, it wasn't really a problem.

Re: Cardboard mobile site - Kathy - 08-01-2013

(08-01-2013, 10:43 AM)Hank 91 link Wrote:I noticed this also, but the odd thing was that while it would always start out with the mobil version on my iPhone, as soon as I navigated anywhere it would switch back. Consequently, it wasn't really a problem.

I noticed the change on my Android for the past two days, but if I tapped the Refresh symbol in the browser bar, it came back up as the familiar, regular site. I thought something had gone haywire with my Favorites link, but my phone wouldn't let me try to resave the link to Favorites (said it was already there).

It's back to normal now, though. Thank you.


Re: Cardboard mobile site - 82 Card - 08-02-2013

I never saw any problems on my 10 inch Android tablet. I think mine just goes to the  full version of the site.

I find the Card Board easier to read on Firefox for Android.  Better zoom than native browsers. Wouldn't help on a stripped mobile site but helpful on full site.

Re: Cardboard mobile site - yvonne - 08-02-2013

I changed the selection so that mobile site uses the same template as the desktop site.