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  • October 29, 2010 at 8:51 pm #12828
    James Warrener

    Just wanted to canvass a bit of opinion on whether road.cc’ers use their mobiles to access the site?

    I have just been Blackberried and find the site slow to load through mobile internet.

    Now, I haven’t the first clue about WAP and Android and apps and stuff, but could road.cc go mobile at some stage and make it possible for me to read the news and post on the forum without it being either tiny, or about £1m in data charges?

    (sorry Dave, this is more of a question than the previous one about adding polls to the forum!)

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  • November 18, 2010 at 9:29 pm #638641
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    James Warrener

    When’s it coming back?
    When’s it coming back?

    November 16, 2010 at 1:50 pm #638639
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    James Warrener

    Cool, I thought I had broken
    Cool, I thought I had broken it :/

    November 15, 2010 at 2:23 pm #638637
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    Tony Farrelly

    Yeah
    Yeah B-)

    November 15, 2010 at 2:07 pm #638635
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    dave atkinson

    don’t worry, it will return.
    don’t worry, it will return. but when we tried it on the live site it picked up some issues we hadn’t noticed in development, so we need to fix them before we lob it back up. we will though.

    November 15, 2010 at 1:44 pm #638633
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    JohnBuc

    Worked well and I liked the
    Worked well and I liked the layout and speed when viewing on iPhone 3gs on Orange 2g/3g.

    As mentioned above, it’s gone AWOL now!

    I liked the m site colours too by the way!

    November 15, 2010 at 9:46 am #638631
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    jova54

    Cheers Dave, after the
    Cheers Dave, after the weekend I’ve had I was beginning to believe that all the technology was conspiring against me.

    November 15, 2010 at 9:17 am #638629
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    dave atkinson

    a few teething troubles which
    a few teething troubles which we’re working on 😐

    November 15, 2010 at 9:06 am #638627
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    jova54

    I’ve been trying to connect
    I’ve been trying to connect to the mobile site today for the first time and it comes back with url not found.

    Is the site up at present?

    I’m using HTC Desire on Vodafone.

    November 12, 2010 at 2:37 pm #638625
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    dave atkinson

    bazzargh wrote:Please

    bazzargh wrote:
    Please consider loading fewer and using the common trick of ajax requests to load more on scroll to get that ‘infinite scroll’ effect.

    we’re certainly considering that, we’ll continue to fiddle with the mobile site to try and get the best out of it…

    November 12, 2010 at 2:19 pm #638623
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    scook94

    Working great on my
    Working great on my Blackberry Torch running OS6 (.337)

    November 12, 2010 at 1:55 pm #638621
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    bazzargh

    iPhone 4. The page width is
    iPhone 4. The page width is wider than the screen, and smaller when rotated (you expect rotating a mobile site to portrait to still show at device width, so the text is larger). I see you’ve set an absolute size for the viewport in the meta tag. Should this not be the usual <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no"/> (like say, m.bbc.co.uk)?

    Secondly I was loading this on a 2G network and it did seem a tad slow. The visible portion of the page rendered quickly but the network was still active loading dozens of stories ‘below the fold’ that I’ll never see. Please consider loading fewer and using the common trick of ajax requests to load more on scroll to get that ‘infinite scroll’ effect.

    November 12, 2010 at 1:30 pm #638619
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    skippy0791

    Works great for me. Using HTC
    Works great for me. Using HTC desire on Orange with Android 2.2. Either mobile or wifi page loads quickly.

    November 12, 2010 at 1:30 pm #638617
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    skippy0791

    Works great for me. Using HTC
    Works great for me. Using HTC desire on Orange with Android 2.2. Either mobile or wifi page loads quickly.

    November 12, 2010 at 1:25 pm #638615
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    chiefoldmist

    Looking good from my HTC Hero
    Looking good from my HTC Hero / Android 2.1 – main site slowish to load but am guessing that may just be an initial peak

    November 12, 2010 at 12:53 pm #638613
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    dave atkinson

    so, the fledgling version of
    so, the fledgling version of the mobile site is live:

    http://m.road.cc

    you can get latest news and reviews and check out the forum. If you have a go, let us know what mobile you use and how (whether) it worked…

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