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Improved support for smartphones

Postby HB on Thu Oct 28, 2010 11:05 pm

As part of improving the site's accessibility for mobile devices, I have tweaked the navigation / layout. Try it for a few days, then let me know what you think. Feedback from those with smartphones is especially welcome.

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Postby drgary on Fri Oct 29, 2010 3:03 am

Dan,

Thanks for this effort. One thing seems to be missing, which is the link to easily find and view threads one has participated in. Am I just missing this and it's somewhere obvious?

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Postby jasonmolinari on Fri Oct 29, 2010 7:16 am

I like it, but there is a big thing missing for me....the quick links to the major forum groups "Tips & Techniques · Espresso Machines · Grinders ....etc." at the top of the page below the "home, reviews, how-tos ...."

when reading on my ipad i have to press "forums" then scroll to find the next group...instead of having a quick select like the full version of the site has.
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Postby HB on Fri Oct 29, 2010 8:08 am

drgary wrote:One thing seems to be missing, which is the link to easily find and view threads one has participated in.

That's the so-called "ego search". I rarely used the link since the icon indicates what threads you've participated in by the asterisk (below). If I really want to search out my posts, I use the standard search, e.g. my recent posts. But there's room, so I squeezed in "your posts" next to the view recent posts/recent topics.

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jasonmolinari wrote:when reading on my ipad i have to press "forums" then scroll to find the next group...instead of having a quick select like the full version of the site has.

On my phone, those links are too small to be useful. I added them back to the mobile layout to see what others think.
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Postby jasonmolinari on Fri Oct 29, 2010 6:44 pm

Cool! I like them. on my Iphone4 they're small, but usable, especially in landscape mode, and i'm sure they'll be perfect on the ipad.

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Postby SlowRain on Sat Oct 30, 2010 2:10 am

Thank you very much. I really appreciate websites that take phones into account and develop a mobile version.
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Postby HB on Sat Oct 30, 2010 11:33 am

Another small change that may not be obvious, but is quite handy...

I like to bop back and forth between a specific forum and the main forum page (index). To make that an easier navigation on mobile devices, the images on the masthead have different links. The "HOME-BARISTA.COM" image will go the homepage, the logo will go directly to the forums:

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I've trimmed some [excess] verbiage around the various navigation links to make it easier to move around. Tip: Double-tap to zoom makes it easier to read threads since it will auto-zoom to show the post content, cutting off the poster profile on the right. Double-tapping again will unzoom.

If you're a regular visitor, try adding the HB link to your iPhone home screen (browse with Safari, tap "+", and then tap "Add to Home Screen"):

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To save a click, I linked recent posts.
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Postby yakster on Sat Oct 30, 2010 9:00 pm

Dan,

Thanks for the mobile enhancements. I've been using the Droid phone more and more instead of booting up a computer and the changes make a difference.
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Postby drgary on Sun Oct 31, 2010 12:02 am

HB wrote:If you're a regular visitor, try adding the HB link to your iPhone home screen (browse with Safari, tap "+", and then tap "Add to Home Screen"):

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To save a click, I linked recent posts.


Pretty slick!
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Postby darrensandford on Tue Nov 02, 2010 8:32 am

Hi,
Just a minor thing, but I thought I should mention it.

I noticed that the subtext under the post title in the forum topic list is missing a space after the poster's name. For example:

by HBon Mon May 03, 2010 4:29 pm


EDIT: Forgot to mention the version of Firefox - 3.6.12:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0E)
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