Is mobile beta borked?

[Bill]

Or is it just me? On android, HTC one.

[Shaw Tarse]

Seems ok on iPad Air.

[Bill]

Hmmm, seems ok on iPad1 too. Just my phone renders it as Big Blue desktop view I've changed it to classic and back and switched on & off desktop view and it's not sorted.

[Bill]

No one else on android?

[MattDell]

Have you tried clearing your cookies?

[Bill]

Aha! That's sorted it, thank you.

[LordGrover]

10 Turn it off and turn it on again
20 Clear cookies
30 Goto 10

[miniman]

I tried it again today, just to see if it's been improved at all. It hasn't. It's a perfect example of lack of attention to detail.

[MattDell]

Examples are always useful.

[miniman]

Would love to upload a screen grab, but the image upload just says "iframe loading"

The main issue is on desktop - it's just inconsistent in spacing, type, sizes. If you're aiming to copy Big Blue, copy it. If not, make it look different.

[MattDell]

miniman said:

Would love to upload a screen grab, but the image upload just says "iframe loading"

The main issue is on desktop - it's just inconsistent in spacing, type, sizes. If you're aiming to copy Big Blue, copy it. If not, make it look different.

The original idea a year ago was to copy big blue and then make it responsive into a mobile optimized format for smaller screens. We couldn't copy big blue because it mostly works in tables and not div elements. Because of that, we decided to try to rewrite Big Blue into div elements but we couldn't get it to look quite right. Then there was the controversial decision to make the text bigger, and that threw out a lot of the formatting. And that's where it's stayed.

Going forward the plan is to likely just show Big Blue if you're on a desktop device and then show the Mobile skin if you're on a phone or tablet. That way you'd never see any difference on a desktop.

[Shaw Tarse]

I use Big Blue on iPad, tried mobile beta & wasn't keen. Nothing really wrong with it, just that it didn't look "right"

[MattDell]

You do get used to it. I now find Big Blue "doesn't look quite right".

I think the biggest thing is the font size difference.

[Shaw Tarse]

It took me long enough to get used to Big Blue having started with Classic

[Bill]

Yep, I've got used to mobile beta because it's much better on a mobile and I cba changing my settings.

[miniman]

How do you get from My Stuff to the last page in a thread on mobile?

Edited by miniman on Friday 4th July 20:55

[miniman]

Also, why is there no visual stimulus when you tap a link?

[miniman]

Here's the "attention to detail" image I couldn't post from my phone.

[miniman]

Here's the on-hover state on desktop of the "My Stuff" link (ditto all others)



You don't need st hot developers, you need a digital designer (i.e. not an ex-print Haymarket bod) and a UX person.

[miniman]

The footnotes for edited posts etc. have no identifying style.



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I'll stop now, but you did say examples would be useful