For the last week or so I have been working on a dedicated mobile version of the LRR website and I would like to get some feedback and hopefully some compatibility testing for a wider range of devices.
You can see and try out the mobile site at http://m.loadingreadyrun.com
Feedback I am looking for:
Everyone
- Any glitches, rendering bugs or weird behaviour?
- Is this something you think you would use?
- Are there any parts of the site or information you think are missing?
- It probably won't be practical to make mobile-optimized versions of every blog post, but would links to the lastest blog entries be useful?
- What about the LRR Twitter feed?
- The right-most button in the navbar in the footer should always send you to the desktop version of the page you are looking at. Is this a useful feature or is it just confusing?
- I am generally against redirection for mobile devices, but would you like to be automatically sent to the mobile-optimized version of a video page if you are viewing it with a mobile device? (eg. if you follow a link to GPLP Cursed Crusade PT24, on your phone, would you rather be sent to the mobile version)
- This will probably be the new way to access the mobile version of the forums (the old way only worked on iphone and forced users to use the mobile theme). I have made mobile versions of what I see as the most useful pages (reading topics, post new topic, reply, etc) but there will be some pages that are are not reformatted. phpBB has tons of different templates and it just doesn't make sense to change all of them. Are there any forum pages that you use all the time that you think would benefit from mobile optimization?
iPhone Users
- If you add the mobile home page to your Home Screen, it should open as a full screen web app. This has the advantage of more screen real estate and being separate from general Safari browsing but the rendering might be a little slower, you lose the back button and offsite links are forced to switch to Safari to open. Is this a worthwhile tradeoff, or would you prefer to just access the mobile site in the standard Safari browser?
Android/Windows Phone Users
- I have tried to make the mobile site compatible with as wide a range of devices as possible, but I haven't been able to do much testing on non-iOS devices. Does the site work properly on your device? Does the layout break in any obvious way (it should automatically expand to fill your screen)?
Please list you device browser and OS version in your reply.
Thanks for the help!