[Informational] Responsive Styles

[Dave]

I've just added something called "Responsive Design". What this is supposed to do it make the sit look/feel better on mobile platforms.

Let me know if you have any issues. I know I have to tweak a few things.

 

[strawman]

Looks better on my iPad already. Thanks!

 

[Zappit]

Oh, just posted on that. I can't see anything on the sides, like the shoutbox. I can barely see the alert options. I don't think I like this at all. I do all my foruming on mobiles, but I truly liked the plain old ordinary design better.

 

[Dave]

Oh, just posted on that. I can't see anything on the sides, like the shoutbox. I can barely see the alert options. I don't think I like this at all. I do all my foruming on mobiles, but I truly liked the plain old ordinary design better.

Hmm. What kind of mobile do you browse on?

 

[Bubble181]

You completely borked the forum for me for about 2 or 5 minutes, then everything started working again. Not complaining, I was just wondering what kind of update was going on

 

[Dave]

You completely borked the forum for me for about 2 or 5 minutes, then everything started working again. Not complaining, I was just wondering what kind of update was going on

Yeah. See, we have 11 styles being used on the forum. Each style needs to be recached when I load an addon. In this case I had to add two, which took twice as long. I'm looking at getting rid of a few, but they are all being used by at least 3 people.

 

[Zappit]

Hmm. What kind of mobile do you browse on?

I'm on an iPad.

 

[Dave]

Okay that explains it. Stienman uses XenMinimal, which doesn't have the Blocks. I think I'll turn off the Responsive for the default style and rename XenMinimal to XenMobile.[DOUBLEPOST=1354914532][/DOUBLEPOST]hurm. I guess XenMobile DOES have the blocks. Interesting. So why does that work and default not?

 

[Zappit]

Yay! It's back! It feels normal again.

 

[Hylian]

So far it is working fine on my Nexus 10

 

[Krisken]

seems fine on my kindle.

 

[Dave]

Yay! It's back! It feels normal again.

I...I haven't done anything yet.

 

[Krisken]

I...I haven't done anything yet.

That's right. Now say "You're welcome".

 

[Zappit]

I...I haven't done anything yet.

Really? It just went...normal. Dave, is HAL(forums) gaining self-awareness?

 

[Dave]

Really? It just went...normal. Dave, is HAL(forums) gaining self-awareness?

Probably what happened was that it was fine but you had to refresh your screen.

 

[GasBandit]

Nexus 7 looks fine.

 

[Dave]

Yeah, that's because I turned it off for most of the styles. To work right, you have to remove the sidebar. Look at XenMobile to see what I mean.

 

[GasBandit]

Ironically, the style chooser has no scroll bars on my nexus, so I can't choose xenmobile from the list.

 

[Dave]

 

[Covar]

The text box is a slow lagging POS.

Rest of the site works great on my iPad though.

 

[strawman]

Yesterday I had the opportunity to try it out on the iphone 5. It was practically unusable. But I rarely use it that way, so it's not really an issue, but there's a data point.

 

[Dave]

Hurm. Thanks, guys.

 

[Covar]

Issue with the iPhone seems to be related to the size of the viewport on the style. The site down proportionately but doesn't fill the viewport so you have to zoom in and can still move the page horizontally.

Let me see if I can upload a picture from my phone, otherwise I'll post it when I'm at my desktop.

 

[Covar]

Another update. This is the same issue on Chrome for iOS too, so I think it's a WebKit issue.

On the plus side photo uploading works great on here

 

[Chad Sexington]

Huh, that's fucky. Looks fine on Chrome and the native browser for Android for what it's worth.

 

[Dave]

It has to do with the sidebar blocks. To make it look right I'd have to turn them off.

 

[GasBandit]

Guess they'll just have to graduate to real smartphones