Viewing the forums on a PDA

blun · 23 Jan 2006 at 15:36

I often access the net / other forums from my pda whilst watching tv / doing stuff away from the pc.

Unfortunately I can't browse ocuk properly as theres too many graphics going on and my pda takes ages to render the page.

I've noticed lots of other forums have a text only option, is there a feature of vBulletin that allows this?

I'd be interested to see if anyone else is after functionality like this.

Treefrog · 23 Jan 2006 at 15:39

You can turn off avatars and sigs in the User CP. Is that what you wanted to know?

Burnsy2023 · 23 Jan 2006 at 15:39

What browser are you viewing it on? I use PIE and without the 'fit to screen option on' the forums look fine.

Burnsy

blun · 23 Jan 2006 at 15:51

Using PIE at the moment, but with some pages reaching 200-300k including graphics, they take ages to render. Also the width of the left column means you either don't get much text on the screen, or have to scroll horizontally and vertically.

Unfortunately we can't turn off avatars either which makes it tricky.

Text only with html links for buttons would be ideal! (Also for browsing over GPRS)

Adz · 23 Jan 2006 at 15:52

I'm not a PDA user but vB 3.x is almost entirely CSS based - if your browser can disable CSS you should find it much more usable.

Otacon · 23 Jan 2006 at 15:54

View > Untick 'Show Images'

Using PIE, running at 640x480 is a joy, but you're right about its scaling at the default res. Pocket Opera is meant to be excellent for scaling sites down, though I've yet to try it.

Stringy · 23 Jan 2006 at 15:54

If it's Windows Mobile (smartphone or pocket pc) I'm pretty sure you can turn off images in the browser?

Desmo · 23 Jan 2006 at 15:56

Turn off images in your browser, that'll help. Other than that mine seems OK to browse although I'd prefer a PDA/mobile option if it was available.

D33 · 23 Jan 2006 at 16:27

http://www.doom3.co.uk/D33/pdatrickery1.jpg
http://www.doom3.co.uk/D33/pdatrickery2.jpg

Another forum but typically that's how OcUK looks to me on my pda.

wub wub vga \o/

--ki-- · 23 Jan 2006 at 16:35

Get pocket opera, its amazing, I can view the OCUK forums very easy now fits perfectly to window no side scrolling, and unlike PIE it does proper VGA meaning you dont get huge images when they should be small. Only draw back is its 45day trial till the beta is over, but should be free like normal opera when betas are through, it even has a DL manager now.

blun · 23 Jan 2006 at 22:23

Remember that the majority of mobile devices are not VGA. My O2 XDA mini S is 320x240.

Going to try the latest beta of pocket opera - but it would still be nice to have a text only version of the forums

Otacon · 24 Jan 2006 at 09:36

Otacon said:
View > Untick 'Show Images'

Desmo · 24 Jan 2006 at 09:47

--ki-- said:
Get pocket opera, its amazing.

I tried this on my HX4700 last night and it is indeed superb

blun · 24 Jan 2006 at 12:54

Otacon said:
View > Untick 'Show Images'

Obviously I've done that

But PIE.. lovely as it is.. leaves a massive placeholder which is almost as bad as downloading the whole image as far as page formatting goes.

Certainly would be handy if we could turn avatars off.