eGO Mobile?

Do you, or would you, view the forums using a mobile device?

  • I don't own such device

    Points: 254 31.5%

  • I own one but it does not load well

    Points: 138 17.1%

  • I own one and view often

    Points: 147 18.2%

  • I own one and would investigate if the site was mobile friendly

    Points: 268 33.2%
  • Total voters
    807
its nice to read the forums from work during my freetime but it does take a long time to pull somthing up... a mobile friendly version would be aweseome.. as long as we had access to what we have here ya know
 
I was browsing forums on an iPod Touch a few days ago. It works nicely, but if possible, a mobile option would be ever so helpful. When I'm not on a PC, I'm on a mobile device, and I love to check up on the clan. :)
 
LOL I thought about mentioning this when I went on this from my ipod a few weeks ago
 
Please make it mobile device friendly! I go on the site often and would absolutely love if it was coded for a mobile device such as my iPod Touch! :)
 
I don't own an IPOD or a Cell phone. But this this a good idea. I can see this attracting new members possibly?
 
Well, I've tried making a mobile site for eGO, but there is an incredible amount of code to go through...

This is why I hate tables. :P
 
Iphone works great all around with the site, it would just be "easier" if it was a mobile site. But I can understand for other users besides iphone and droid that it would make it a whole lot easier.
 
For a mobile site to work, eGO would have to place new element tags for the html and block any flash or javascript. iPhone works with these yes, but most mobile phones do not. Now there are ways to set it up so mobile phones see something different, but still are able to interact with the website.

http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2005/07/make-your-site-mobile-friendly

Easy to do, i didn't want to explain it so i googled it lol ^.^
 
Wow! Check out what I found! This should be amazing, you can view the demo here. That's what I was thinking to do...

My idea (not relating to iWebKit) was this:

To have the site recognize specific user-agents (iPod, Berry...) and according to the agent, choose a specific stylesheet to style the site. Now eGO's main style currently is the default vBulletin one that comes in the vBulletin package, either that or it was generated by vBulletin's generator, because if you look at the code it says:
Code: 
<meta name="generator" content="vBulletin 3.8.2" />

To completely revolutionize the site, there would be a few simple controls. There would be a button that says 'Post', one that says 'Read', and another one that says 'Update Profile', you know, the basics. No ads, of course, because ads can lag sites, especially on devices with most of the time high ping and low connection speed.

The way this would work would be this:

'Post`= You can connect to a certain thread and post on it. Of course, the thread would be in simplified form, letting the mobile user see the title of the thread, the first post, any post by the thread starter, and the last post. Then there would be a textarea underneath the last post much like the 'Quick Reply' I'm typing this in now, which the mobile user could type their message, and post it. The databases would connect the same, it's just the display that's changing.

'Read'= The user can view all threads with all posts in a simplified format (no fancy rounded corners, and option to display images for lag-less environment), and if they decide to post, there would be a button at the bottom that leads to the appropriate post page, for that thread.

'User Profile'= Currently, there are multiple pages in which the regular user can change every setting they could possibly need to ever change. That's a lot of settings, most of which aren't really that important (eg. time zone, password, stuff like that). In my opinion, the important stuff would be things like subscribed threads, signature, and event reminders. Chances are the user who's mobile rather than on a desktop needs to change something quick, or view something important right then and there. They wouldn't need to change their avatar, because most people don't carry around their entire library of photographs on their Blackberry or iTouch/iPhone. Mobile people want to look at the simple form of sites, and have the simple controls that are simple to reach and simple to change. They want their information fast, and easy. It's difficult to code things this way, but it's worth it.

Who knows, maybe more people will join eGO, knowing that even though they're on the move a lot, they can still contribute to the clan and help out.


I've been coding websites for about a year now (since I was bout 13), but of course that doesn't mean I know exactly what I'm saying is true. This is mostly my opinion, with a little fact and some other stuff I don't know how to describe thrown in. If you're reading this, thank you, it shows you have patience to read through my entire post that took me about 5 minutes or hardcore typing :P to type out.

Thanks, hope I could help! :D
 
I've got Nokia E65 and am using Opera Mobile. It works ok but if the site was made mobile friendly I'm pretty sure it would work much better.
 
I understand where you are coming from, Death Injection, and your idea does make sense. I have been programming/coding many different languages for 7 years now, and what you are thinking of would seem simple enough, only problem is if you change the style to be browser specific, that is all it is doing. Most mobile phone browsers use Internet Explorer 6's technology in the firmware to load up the website, thus the website would not be able to identify and change the style accordingly to that phone.

On top of that, i know when i use my mobile internet, i want functionality to the fullest extent i can receive without sacrificing performance on my phone, so i wouldn't just want to see three buttons and minimal information, i would want to actually see the website and such, even if it looks very basic, i want to be able to access everything.

Your ideas were great for someone so new in coding, i think if you keep on researching and studying programming languages which are network based (html, php, asp, js, etc..) you will turn out to be an excellent designer. Website designers make 800-8000$ a website, depending on the customer ;]


If you want it to be simplistic for mobile web browsers, then you need to point the mobile browser in the right direction. The link i provided above allowed for simple access for mobile browsers, they go to mobile.edgegamers.org and it will show them the website but compatible for their phones browser.
 
Yes, I was thinking about a mobile.edgegamers.org too.

My site has something like that. What it has is this (on every page):

Code: 
---Head section---
<script type="text/javascript" src="getscreen.js"> 
---Body Section---
<script type="text/javascript"> 
 
if (pageWidth() < 400) {
 
document.writeln('<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="mobilestyle.css" />');
 
}
 
</script> 
<script type="text/javascript"> 
if((navigator.userAgent.match(/iPhone/i)) || (navigator.userAgent.match(/iPod/i))) {
if (document.cookie.indexOf("iphone_redirect=false") == -1)
document.writeln('<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="mobilestyle.css" />');
}
</script>
Although technically NOT correct, it works.
 
It will work perfectly with the iPhone because Apple changed safari for the iPhone specifically. It will work with many phones but not all. But i like it, you're thinking outside of the box.

Now if it just got approved we would be able to do more.
 
i need this. i only have a mobile device right now (ipod touch) and the site takes forever to load anything. i wish there was an app for eGO.
 
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