Mobile Template Read-Only for Now

[Jason Dunn]

In my rush to <a href="http://www.smartphonethoughts.com/news/show/22767/smartphone-thoughts-mobile-templates-now-live.html">post about our new mobile template</a>, I forgot to mention a rather critical piece of information: we didn't have time to design the posting interface, so for the moment the mobile template is &quot;read only&quot;, meaning you can't log in and post messages. This is definitely on the &quot;to do&quot; list to fix, but we didn't want to delay the launch even longer. Thanks for your patience as we address this issue - the old posting interface, frankly, kind of sucked (it was a waste to load all those emoticons) so we want to create something fast and slick to make mobile posting easy.

[John Cody]

Hey Jason,

The new mobile template looks really good. I just have two issues:

1) As you can see below, the top part of the page is a blank gray area - is there something that should be there?

http://www.max-soft.com/notop.gif



2) The text is REALLY small - and I have my IE "Text Size" set up a notch to "Larger".

Any chance that a custom font size selection can be added to my profiles's "Settings"?

http://www.max-soft.com/smalltext.gif

[scottb]

Strange...I don't have that space at the top. :confused:

[Jason Dunn]

1) As you can see below, the top part of the page is a blank gray area - is there something that should be there?

Hmm - that's very unusual, I don't see that at all on my end. I don't, however, have a landscape smartphone with which to test it. What device are you using?

The text is REALLY small - and I have my IE "Text Size" set up a notch to "Larger".

Windows Mobile 6 bumps all IE text down by one size across the board...so we had to choose between making it too small for Windows Mobile 5 users or too small for Windows Mobile 6 users. There are more Windows Mobile 5 users out there right now, so we picked the lesser of two evils - we'll change the font size up by one notch later this year. Believe me, I'm pretty ticked off that Microsoft did this. :mad:

[John Cody]

Hmm - that's very unusual, I don't see that at all on my end. I don't, however, have a landscape smartphone with which to test it. What device are you using?

I'm using a WM6 Dash - I didn't touch the user agent setting at all - it's the out of the box default value.



Windows Mobile 6 bumps all IE text down by one size across the board...so we had to choose between making it too small for Windows Mobile 5 users or too small for Windows Mobile 6 users. There are more Windows Mobile 5 users out there right now, so we picked the lesser of two evils - we'll change the font size up by one notch later this year. Believe me, I'm pretty ticked off that Microsoft did this. :mad:

Sorry, didn't explain myself fully....What I am saying is why not add a "Font Size" setting for each user, just like you currently have a "Show/Hide" images settings for low bandwidth users. This way, I can pick the font size I prefer and save it in my profile via a cookie, so every time I visit SPT it will be the font size I chose. Does this make any more sense?

[Jason Dunn]

I'm using a WM6 Dash - I didn't touch the user agent setting at all - it's the out of the box default value.

This is 100% bizarre then - I have a Windows Mobile 6 T-Mobile Dash, freshly hard reset two days ago, nothing installed, just synched with an Exchange server...and I don't see that blank space. I've tried it on all three modes - one column, fit to screen, and desktop...all look the same. Are you going through any sort of a proxy? I can't explain this...

Sorry, didn't explain myself fully....What I am saying is why not add a "Font Size" setting for each user

Sure, makes sense, but I have no spare developer resources for that right now. Sorry. :(

[John Cody]

This is 100% bizarre then - I have a Windows Mobile 6 T-Mobile Dash, freshly hard reset two days ago, nothing installed, just synched with an Exchange server...and I don't see that blank space. I've tried it on all three modes - one column, fit to screen, and desktop...all look the same. Are you going through any sort of a proxy? I can't explain this...


Well, I am using AT&T's "MediaNet" wap proxy, which is the default (and only?) way for AT&T/Cingular customers to connect to the internet on their device.

I did notice that sometimes their proxy messes up some images, but I don't know if that gap at the top is image related or not.

So, I'm curious if any other WM6 Dash ATT/Cingular user is seeing this issue.