Mobile Skin

[Jordy]

I really don't wish to be to rude about the new mobile skin but to put it bluntly, it is a complete and utter fail. It is in no way optimised for mobiles and contains just as much as information and clutter as the normal skin (and loads slowly too). It's just as unusable as a normal skin on a mobile too. I gather this is early days but everything about it is wrong. I also understand someone has probably worked hard on this, but has someone not pointed out it doesn't function as a "Mobile" skin.

I have been told it is optimised for PDAs/Smartphones, seeing as the old mobile skin was aimed at traditional mobile phones was far too basic, although I happily used it on Smartphones, I just wish the keys were a bit bigger.

These are screenshots from my iPod Touch (it will appear the same on iPhones);

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These are screenshots from my HTC Touch Pro 2 Phone using a mobile version of Opera;

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[jackass]

I'm going to try it on my Viewty later, but looking at it on this forum (ignoring functionality), it looks great! Nice work on the design guys.

[xxMATTGxx]

Here's how it looks on an HTC Hero:





I can see where Jordy is coming from but it is manageable. Using my WiFi connection at the moment, will test mobile to see how good it is at loading etc.

Edit: Been testing it on mobile connections (HSPA atm) and it does load pretty fine, quicker than the site skin anyway. So no problems there!

[jackass]

I have HSDPA on my phone, but in my area, I can only get up to Edge signal max.

[Blinger1]

Can we get one like ClubHabbos?

We don't need to know all the nitty details of the bloody forum on the mobile skin.

This is their newposts thing:

Mobile Skin (6)^ Blinger Today 12:05 PM*

the thread title(^) is aligned left and who posted is aligned to the right(*), its basic but it works.

[marriott0.01]

I think it should also take up a bit more space I hate that you have to manually zoom in, I just tried it on Symbian OS, Android OS, a Proprietary OS, iPhone OS, Windows Mobile, Web OS, Blackberry OS and Maemo and the results were all the same. In fact the Symbian, Maemo and Web OS devices for some reason ran the full site skin a lot quicker.

[Jordy]

Hi was just wondering whether anything was actually going to be done about this?

[Jamesy]

Hi was just wondering whether anything was actually going to be done about this?

Of course. Sorry, I've just been extremely busy and I'm working through a long list

[Blinger1]

When you load the mobile skin, about 3/4 of the left side has the actually content while the rest is just grey. It shows the same as when you load it on the pc btw

[The Professor]

I thought this when I first saw it but didn't want to say anything. The original mobile skin was designed for phones with very early web browsers (I think it came out in 06?), nowadays a lot of phones have browsers capable of showing full websites pretty well so I thought maybe having all the images and info was manageable now. Obv not though