Mobile Style

[tetsujin1979]

MOD EDIT: A mobile style is available at m.foot.ie (http://m.foot.ie/).

cant login to the site with my mobile any more either
I'm using Opera Mini, but never had any problems before the upgrade

[tetsujin1979]

cant login to the site with my mobile any more either
I'm using Opera Mini, but never had any problems before the upgrade
new style has sorted this out, I can log in from my phone now again

[tetsujin1979]

What about a proper mobile skin? It was mentioned a few times before the upgrade?

[DmanDmythDledge]

Or an app. :D

[dahamsta]

I'll get to a mobile skin after the main one is installed, but it should be better already. There'll be no app.

@Dunny, vintage?

[red bellied]

Not sure if foot.ie is powered by vbulletin or phpbb boards but if it is there is an app called tapatalk that willl convert to mobile version. Forum owner just has to contact to download plugin to activate.

http://www.tapatalk.com/

[dahamsta]

What about a proper mobile skin? It was mentioned a few times before the upgrade?

I've added a mobile skin, which you can access from the URL at the bottom of this post. If you accidentally click it on a computer, click Back and then the first URL to reload the Foot.ie skin. There's an Options addon for this skin, and another plugin that does auto-detection of mobile devices, but let me know how ye get on with this first

This is the Foot.ie skin:
http://foot.ie/forum.php?styleid=13

This is the Mobile skin:
http://foot.ie/forum.php?styleid=16

adam

[holidaysong]

Cheers for the mobile skin. It's working great on my phone.

[holidaysong]

A couple of little problems with the mobile skin:

You can't get to the foot.ie/forum page without typing it in manually. The 'Forum' link actually brings you to foot.ie/index instead of foot.ie/forum.

Also, sections that have new posts in them are highlighted in bold ok on the foot.ie/forum page but when you click into the section the threads with new posts since your last visit aren't highlighted in bold so you don't know which threads have been added to since your last visit.

[tetsujin1979]

A couple of little problems with the mobile skin:

You can't get to the foot.ie/forum page without typing it in manually. The 'Forum' link actually brings you to foot.ie/index instead of foot.ie/forum.

Also, sections that have new posts in them are highlighted in bold ok on the foot.ie/forum page but when you click into the section the threads with new posts since your last visit aren't highlighted in bold so you don't know which threads have been added to since your last visit.
I've no real problems with the mobile skin, apart from the lack of unread marks for posts
I really like that I can view the skin on my phone, and when I log in on my computer it uses the standard skin

[dahamsta]

Moving this discussion to a dedicated thread.

I've installed the Mobile Options plugin and used that to tweak the mobile skin a little, in particular linking to the forums rather than the homepage at the top, and linking to the default style at the bottom of the page. Let me know if ye have any problems or feedback. I'll get this skinned a little better in time.

[dahamsta]

Just added m.foot.ie (http://m.foot.ie/) for a quick redirect to the mobile skin.

[leather]

is there a foot.ie iphone app??

[dahamsta]

See post 12 above.

[Dodge]

meant to post. Mobile version hasn't worked properly since last upgrade. Somethings (like thread stars) look huge

[dahamsta]

Fixed it yesterday, should be ok now?

[OneRedArmy]

Fixed it yesterday, should be ok now?Now working ok.

Ta.

[dahamsta]

No worries. It's slightly different, so if anything needs to be changed, let me know.

[Dodge]

Nah, much better layout. All the basics, fair play

[dahamsta]

I've installed a script now that should detect the vast majority of mobiles and redirect automatically to m.foot.ie. If this creates problems for anyone, let me know.

[Magicme]

Is there a way of switching back to normal mode on mobile coz I don't really like the mobile version.

[dahamsta]

Nope. Leave it with me, I'll install another Foot.ie theme without the detection script.

What don't you like about the mobile version?

[Magicme]

Was scared of that question! Naw its just the way you can't see in the front page which of the sub threads has the update or who has posted last message. It's laziness I suppose coz sometimes don't have a lot of time.

[dahamsta]

Fair enough. I've installed a different detection script now, see how you get on with that. I haven't tried it myself yet.

[Magicme]

Magicme....the guinea pig.

Still coming up as mobile for me.

[thischarmingman]

I like the fact there is a mobile version but there are several little things that annoy me, the issue Magicme noted above, and the fact you can't thank posts for instance.

That said, I imagine it's very difficult to reduce the entire forum to one mobile-sized screen- no matter how many changes are made it will always miss something from the desktop site.

[dahamsta]

Still coming up as mobile for me.

Click Desktop View at the top of the page.


That said, I imagine it's very difficult to reduce the entire forum to one mobile-sized screen- no matter how many changes are made it will always miss something from the desktop site.

Absolutely, and you'll always have people that want another feature. Mobile view is lightweight view, so it'll always have basic functionality.

[Magicme]

Had tried the desktop button before and it didn't work so didn't think of it again, thanks. It's good to have options!

[dahamsta]

It should reset for every session, i.e. the first time you hit the site after opening your browser you'll be redirected to the mobile style, but if you manually choose the desktop style, it'll stick with that until you close your browser.

[Magicme]

It brought me automatically to desktop version.

[Dodge]

M.foot.ie brought me to desktop on my iPod

Switched using the theme selecter bar thingy

[dahamsta]

Reinstalled the mobile style, has a different ID, I'll fix it in the morning. Thanks for letting me know.

[Dodge]

M.foot.ie brought me to desktop on my iPod

Switched using the theme selecter bar thingy

Still the same (for iphone too)

[holidaysong]

Cheers for the new mobile skin. Little things like bringing you to the first unread post in a thread makes it so much more user friendly than the last one.

[dahamsta]

No worries, thanks for the feedback.

Dodge, can you try clearing your cache? The skin actually has a setting for crapple stuff, and it's definitely enabled.

[dahamsta]

Ah, I see the problem; Dodge, can you check m.foot.ie (http://m.foot.ie/) again please?

[Dodge]

Straight into mobile style.

[dahamsta]

Coolal boolah, thanks.

[Longfordian]

The new mobile style looks good but is there or could you enable any way of going directly to the last post? I know it's not a big deal having to click to the last page but the previous mobile style was handier in that regard.

[dahamsta]

Meant to post about this, the new style is bundled with vBulletin and there are certainly a few problems with it, for example it also doesn't have subbed threads available, which is a particular annoyance to me. I'm going to file bug requests for that and your suggestion above, and if they don't fix them by the next release, I'll likely switch back to the other style until they fix it, ok?

[Longfordian]

Yeah, no worries DH cheers.

[tetsujin1979]

I use Opera Mini on my phone instead of the default browser, and it really doesn't like the new mobile style at all.

[dahamsta]

Noted tets, thanks.

[Dodge]

Hate this new one. Biggest problem is the lack of 'search for new posts' but I can't see one advantage it has over previous one

[dahamsta]

They're completely different, this is the official one and they're primary target seems to have been touchscreens via jQuery UI mobile. It's their 1st version, they'll catch up pretty quickly.

I'll look into loading the other one in as a manual option. Only one of them can be automatic.

[dahamsta]

They're completely different, this is the official one and they're primary target seems to have been touchscreens via jQuery UI mobile. It's their 1st version, they'll catch up pretty quickly.

I'll look into loading the other one in as a manual option. Only one of them can be automatic.

[Dodge]

Yeah, I read that above. Wasn't having a pop. Just giving the feedback. iPhone user in case that matters

[Serb]

I really like the new mobile skin in general. I have two issues that are mildly annoying however.

Issue 1: I may be doing something wrong for this, but to get to the last unread post, you need to tap the thread (which brings you to the first post), tap the arrow to go to the last page, then go back to find the last post you read.

Issue 2: Say you read from page 1 to 6 of a thread in the Ireland forum, the only way to get back to the parent forum is to hit back 6 times or go back to the homepage and navigate through the forums again.

Cheers,
Serb

[A face]

I have a HTC Desire 2.2 and standard browser version WebKit 3.1 and it seems to be fine on every other site, comparing message boards in particular but i'm having problems with foot.ie. I can login, pick a section (i.e. Premier + First Divisions) and the page seems to load, i can see advert but that's. I have deleted cache, cookies, etc and still the same.

Any ideas?

[thischarmingman]

This happens to me on my HTC too- I can only see the full site.

Apart from that I've been meaning to make a thread here all the week about the fact that it also happens to me on my laptop- it's starting to drive me crazy. A few times a day, I have to load and reload and reload a page because all I get is the headers and adverts.