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12/06/2008 13:39 #46985

Updated the mobile site again
Category: mobile

I updated the estrip mobile site

again.

0. Made the buttons way bigger on the iphone, which has enough screen real estate to handle that.
1. Made the login work better on the iphone. There was a glitch before trying to type in your password.
2. Moved the login right to the top of the fron page of the mobile site
3. made a mobile version of the send message, send email link on the users mobile journal pages that leaves you on the mobile site and returns you back to the site when you send a message/email. Previously, it used to regular sites page which sucked for the mobile. The new one give syou feedbakc saying the message was sent
4. Chnaged the message user and email user to text links instead of the postit and email link.
5. Added link to mobile nfta bus and metro schedules at the bottom of the front page

jenks - 12/07/08 10:22
awesome, thanks! I wish orbitz would update their ATT gateway.

paul - 12/06/08 19:31
I also fixed the bug that prevented mobile created comments from showing up on the main site blogs until the blog was updated. Thanks (e:matthew) for catching that.

paul - 12/06/08 19:21
Thank you for thanking Heidi! I am glad someone uses it. I decided to update some other stuff too.

0. Mobile prefs are now only on the mobile site. Before they were only on the non-mobile site which was dumb.
1. Fixed mobile messages to AT&T phones. Apparently, they changed their gateway last year and I didn't keep up because the old gateway was working, well it isn't anymore. Now its all up to par. If you use AT&T and have you mobile prefs set right, you should find that you get messages sent to you on estrip as text messages.

heidi - 12/06/08 15:34
Nice! Thank you!

11/30/2008 12:24 #46891

Mobile Site Updates
Category: mobile

I don't have all that much time right now but I decided to do some mobile site updates that make using the mobile site easier now that more of you are using it.

1. You are now presented with the login box, when trying to leave a commit from the mobile site, and not logged in. Thanks (e:fellyconnelly) for catching this. I had no idea what people meant when they were saying comments were not working.

2. The contact links now work. e.g. post it and email link.

3. The search box is more efficient and no longer has a default value. It also has a search button for phones that don't submit with the enter key being pressed in a form field.

4. I added a before/after journals section to the bottom of any mobile journal page that shows the previous and next 5 journals as links by title making it easier to jump around on a mobile phone. I may do the same for the main site at some point in the future.

5. Got rid of useless mobile nav links that were cluttering mobile nav. The TOS link, the defunct WAP site, epad. Limited messages view to last 10 so that it loads better on mobiles.

fellyconnelly - 12/11/08 10:34
awesome paul!
This = less time for work at work!
which is what I strive for!

news - 11/30/08 17:46
I also made it so that the "read" page has a show next 20 link that lets you keep flipping back in in time from the mobile site. In general it should be easier to get to any journal now.

news - 11/30/08 17:40
I also made it so that the mobile site shows normal size pictures to correspond to todays mobile bandwidth. If this is a problem just add &low to the url, I will add an interface to it later.

11/10/2008 22:43 #46639

IE 6/7 support Question
Category: estrip

Does anyone care anymore. If the new estrip was IE8, Firefox, Safari only and IE 6/7 users had to use the mobile site would anyone even care?

news - 11/30/08 12:25
Oh peter, I just saw your comment on the last journal here. No worries, they can still check the site from the mobile site if I drop IE 6/7 support on the main site. You can get to any journals/chat you need to from there.

metalpeter - 11/12/08 17:59
I'm not the one who runs the site, or does the work to maintain it. I think the site should support IE and the reason is that lots of people use it and don't even know about Safari or Firefox. This is often the case of people who use it at work. I don't use it at work. But maybe someone is about to go home and they want to see if anyone wants to meet at a movie or something and then they won't be able to use the site. But where I think the support is more important is for new members. Say I hear about the site and I come here and only have IE. To Join a site I'm not going to try and figure out why things don't work or that there is a mobile site I'll just give up and never come back, and that could be a factor.

jim - 11/11/08 11:49
IE7 Is a lot of people, is IE8 even out yet?

Doesn't affect me though :)

carolinian - 11/11/08 11:00
Sometimes you just say "Let the legacy bastards burn!"

paul - 11/11/08 09:51
IE 8 as is, is pretty awesome. It supports almost all of what you consider standard DOM/javascript. At least enough of everything to make it much easier.

zobar - 11/11/08 09:05
Please say that IE8 is actually an improvement over IE6. Every day I'm finding new reasons to be disappointed with IE7.

Just two days ago I found out that IE6 doesn't support <option disabled>, and that IE7 never bothered to address the issue - after spending hours writing code that relies on it.

Sometimes I seriously believe that the Internet Explorer team is hindering global progress. How many millions of billable man-hours have been wasted trying to make their crappy browser work?

- Z

imk2 - 11/11/08 08:53
you could use it at work janelle, you'd just use the mobile site. if you click on mobile now, you can see what it would look like.

janelle - 11/11/08 07:37
<Gasp> Then I can't use it at work, I don't think. What will I do all day?

theecarey - 11/10/08 23:47
Whatever you want to do. I use Firefox and only rarely ever IE.

tinypliny - 11/10/08 23:46
Heh, I installed firefox even at work (without admin rights or authorization). The "official" IE-6 made my life a hell with no tabs and 40+ windows at times. It was a question of mental health.

tiburon1724 - 11/10/08 23:38
nope, haven't used IE in years.

james - 11/10/08 23:34
I think the internet needs to stop catering to outdated IE versions. Bring the hammer down Paul!

11/05/2008 00:31 #46541

Thank You President Obama
Category: estrip

We made it to 32 journals in 24 hours.

metalpeter - 11/05/08 16:53
Wow that is a lot he is only the President Elect right now actualy.

10/28/2008 22:27 #46399

Happy 25k Blog Entries on estrip
Category: estrip

Thank you to everyone who help during our month long drive for 25 thousand journal entries. Hope to see you all at the 25k Journal Entries / Halloween Party.

ladycroft - 10/29/08 12:30
hip hip hurray!

jim - 10/29/08 07:48
Wahoo!

james - 10/28/08 23:23
Super awesome!

heidi - 10/28/08 22:34
yippee! Congratulations, Paul, and thank you!!