Eng-Tips Forum iPhone App
Eng-Tips Forum iPhone App
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Is there an iPhone app available for this forum?
If not, wont it be a good idea to have one developed?
If not, wont it be a good idea to have one developed?
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Spread the word, it will eventually reach the right ears.
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Separate approach: talk the site Admins into providing compatibility with the Tapatalk application. Tapatalk costs a few bucks but makes forums more accessible. All of the tech sites (like Android Central, Android Forums etc) are on Tapatalk. I use that program and it certainly does make things easier, although it has a few frustrations that go with it (I have a hard time bookmarking a thread that I like, and sometimes if I leave and come back it resets me to a different "place" than I was when I left).
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brite view (gwt)
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How does it look on iphone?
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Why no response?
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Anyway, I'm guessing the link looks pretty good on i-phone as it does on Android. It is simply reformatted to remove the frames and some other formatting, so what's left flows naturally in your screen. And it seems to do a good job getting rid of a lot of clutter (for example it doesn't repeat "Inappropriate post? If so, Red Flag it!" and "Check out the FAQ area for this forum!" after every post). A good way to read a long post, but that's about it... there is no window to type a response and navigating back to forum or to other forums can be tricky (unfortunately some of the stuff it deletes is stuff you might need). So it's a good tool if you can easily switch back and forth between mobile/GWT view and standard view.
It should be evident from inspection of the link above that all you need to do to get the mobile/GWT view for any page is append that particular text in front of the address:
http://www.google.com/gwt/x?u=
You can do that with cut/paste in front of the address in your address bar if that feature isnot built into your browser.
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It looks pretty plain. Only the thread text appears so the screen is not taken up by borders, images, headers, footers or side bars. Oddly the first three posts don't appear at all. There's nothing between successive posts, so if a poster doesn't have a signature it can be hard to see where new posts start. There's no breadcrumbs, just a "back to -General engineering computer programs discussion" link at the bottom of the page, so it would be pretty hard to navigate. And there are no links to login or post, so it looks like it would be view only.
So it's clearer than the original site and by default the text is bigger. But I'm not sure how much use it would be in practice.
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That is roughly the same as I see. Please note you can see the first posts by going to the top of the page and selecting link "Go to page 1". Personally, I have no problem telling one post from the next post because each posts begins with poster's name in bold (happily it's the only thing in bold... no distraction from bold ads that we have on regular site, and we don't have the mindleslly repetitive purple star / red-flag / faq separators between posts).
If I did want to give little purple star or red-flag, I'd have to go back to regular web view to do so. If I want to post, I have to go back to regular web view to do so (I also tend to go to another application to compose my post and then cut/paste into the regular web view text entry window, because that eng-tips text entry window is just not well-behaved enough to type directly into on my Android).
The mobile GWT view does provide capability to also browse the thread list for a forum, but for some reason I have gotten into the habit of using the regular web page for that.... seems to work fine.
That pretty well outlines my routine for browsing eng-tips on Android. As I said, the mobile GWT seems good for one thing only (reading the thread), but for that it is very very good imo.
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http://www.google.com/gwt/x?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eng-tips.com%2Fthreadminder.cfm%3Fpid%3D724%26page%3D1
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http://www.google.com/gwt/x?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eng-tips.com%2Fthreadminder.cfm%3Fpid%3D724%26page%3D1
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Use the "Dolphin reader":
http://dolphin-browser.com/add-ons/tools/dolphin-reader/
It displays a thread page somewhat similar to the GWT mobile view, perhaps "better" because it retains links for little-purple star, red-flag etc between posts, and retains the text entry posting box at the bottom of the page.
It is an Add-in for Dolphin Browser, which is a great browser imo. Customize by creating "gestures" for the stuff you do often. And that browser is available for both iPhone and Android.
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