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.

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)

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

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.