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Re: Smack Jeeves Mobile Beta

Postby Thera Dratara » May 27th, 2011, 10:23 am

Oh, I was thinking, some sites have the news page as their frontpage. The problem with this regarding mobile smackjeeves, is that you have to manage to click the tiny link for comic if you happen to visit one of those sites.

This could be solved with media queries.
For those not familiar with media queries, it's a new css function that is supported in the latest versions of all browsers. What it does is check the width(amongst others) of your browser-screen, and give a stylesheet that has been modified for your screen. This way, a website can be styled for both screens of handheld devices as well as laptops and HD-sized screens.
For example, check this website: tropenmuseum. Now resize the width of your browser. As you make the browser window smaller, you can see that the layout changes.

Ofcourse, the thing is, it depends on how your site is set up, and isn't always a case of pasting in some code. The default layouts should have this included, and at the least, we'll need a help topic on it in the layouts forum.

Now for the real question: I'd be a willing to look at the default layout and adapt that one, but the question is, what should the layout be like?
I personally was thinking of a big link to the first comic page and a big link for the last comic page followed by the news.
Or would it be more favourable to have all the links and then the news?

What do you guys think?

EDIT:
I adapted the default layout already:
http://testdesign.smackjeeves.com/(again, make the window-width smaller or check it on your phone to see how it looks)

CSS I had to adapt.(I wanted to get rid of the SJ navbar, but couldn't. Also, there's some stuff with the menu that still need to be changed, but it's a start.)
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<style type="text/css">
@media (max-width: 480px)
{
#sj-navbar{display:none;}

#content{margin:0px;}
#header{padding:15px 0 5px 0px;}
#latest-comic{margin:0 auto 25px; width:auto;}
#menu{min-height:22px; overflow:hidden;}
#menu li{ font-size:20px;}
}
</style>


Als I found another site that explains even more neat media-query stuff
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Re: Smack Jeeves Mobile Beta

Postby ZashTheHedehog » May 28th, 2011, 6:15 pm

Not to go off topic but I found a Futurama reference in Admin's annoncment
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Re: Smack Jeeves Mobile Beta

Postby Kaltheinya » May 29th, 2011, 9:44 pm

I would love to be included in that beta test if you are still accepting volunteers. :)
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Re: Smack Jeeves Mobile Beta

Postby kevansevans » May 29th, 2011, 11:44 pm

Sorry, it looks just the same. :\
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Re: Smack Jeeves Mobile Beta

Postby darknlight » May 30th, 2011, 7:41 am

After reading my comic through my mobile through the new mobile system,I find It works realy well for me, I've not had any problems with navigation. I actually find that it makes comics ook a lot more dinamic , particuarly comics with varried panel sizes. I do agree with others in that it would be great to have an optino to be able to read the comments made on the page.
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Re: Smack Jeeves Mobile Beta

Postby Admin » May 30th, 2011, 2:08 pm

Kaltheinya, you've been added.
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Re: Smack Jeeves Mobile Beta

Postby awsome guy » May 31st, 2011, 11:40 am

cool i'll try
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Re: Smack Jeeves Mobile Beta

Postby Draugen » June 4th, 2011, 11:43 am

i have tryed on my Iphone and it works really well on it :D
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Re: Smack Jeeves Mobile Beta

Postby c-1998 » June 4th, 2011, 11:11 pm

Can it work for a samsung seek? Mine works sometimes, but it can't let me read everything right. i tried two cakes but couldn't read much.
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Re: Smack Jeeves Mobile Beta

Postby Thera Dratara » June 5th, 2011, 10:08 am

Uhm, today I tried reading some comics with smackjeeves mobile enabled and they didn't work.

phone: htc legend
when opening the comic in the phone, the smackjeeves mobile gui shows up, but when I zoom in the snazy sticking to panels doesn't happen.
furthermore, comics that have panels enabled are, instead of center above the gui with a nice margin, plastered over the whole length of the page.
pages without panels defined look as they no
rmally do.
Also pageswipping doesn't work.

I figured I might report it. Wish I knew how to make a screen shot of it.
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Re: Smack Jeeves Mobile Beta

Postby Bowserknight » June 7th, 2011, 4:05 am

To anyone wondering, I just checked and the 3DS views pages in the normal way instead of mobile.
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Re: Smack Jeeves Mobile Beta

Postby c-1998 » June 7th, 2011, 5:27 pm

Is there any other way to activate mobile? because my samsung seek works poorly for this. during the loading sequence, it appears as activated but returns to normal. help?
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Re: Smack Jeeves Mobile Beta

Postby Varasque » June 13th, 2011, 6:36 am

I'd like to beta...

The twocakes comic worked quite well for the most part, until I started flipping through a bit quicker and it's now frozen... I have a HTC Desire Z, for the record. I'd like to see how other comics work on it...
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Re: Smack Jeeves Mobile Beta

Postby NtK_Keith » June 14th, 2011, 4:59 am

Myself and Gar are interested in signing up to the beta if that's still open.
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Re: Smack Jeeves Mobile Beta

Postby EternalSlurp » June 15th, 2011, 5:13 am

Would it work for the latest gen of itouch?
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