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Originally Posted by audiologic
The modernnomads website cannot even be properly viewed on a mobile device. This seems fairly hypocritical, but perhaps this is because the site is so young.
I look forward to seeing what this new community has to offer, but I will only be spending time there with my pda, so I hope they correct the formatting very soon.
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We are not certain if there are many users on Modern Nomads wanting to do real browsing through Pocket Internet Explorer on our website: we aim for users that are using it as a business tool and are looking for answers. This is mainly done using a normal desktop. Our statistics confirm this, they show that less than 1% of the current visitors uses a mobile device.
Be aware that we do not bring hot news, and we will never start bringing news: PPCTHoughts is much better at that. Since we will not bring hot news, mobile reading is not really a priority: there is no rush. We aim at improving people's usage of devices: the number of manuals and accompanying pictures will become the major engine behind the site. Another major part will be bigger in-depth articles. Reading manuals or larger in-depth articles on a mobile device is nearly impossible anyway.
For keeping people up to speed, we do offer RSS-feeds for almost every part of the site (the RSS-feed of the forum has some major issues, the rest of the site is completely available through RSS). It will bring you a portion of the articles we think are enough to get a good impression, but most of the time will not cover the entire article/manual.
Only modification we will try to make is removing the menubar in Pocket Internet Explorer. It is not parsed nicely by PIE and it basically makes a complete mess of the top of the page since it expands completely (this is a PIE bug in fact), allowing people to read the full story from the RSS-feed. Especially for the blogs this is annoying (being shorter stories). But on the other hand, we rather have people really reading the articles thoroughly than reading them quickly while waiting in line for the counter. In our opinion, in the waiting line they could better read something quickly that is more time-pressing like the BBC-news or CNN-headlines.
Jaap