Tapatalk for iPhone and Android

[mairyhinge]

Just wondering if you have thought about installing tapatalk, its a free addon to allow iphone and android users to browse and post on the forum without having to use the native browsers. Its low bandwidth so its very good for 3G connections.

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http://www.tapatalk.com/

PS I have NO affiliation with the above website, this is just a suggestion to enhance the user experience

[Steve]

I have looked at it but have not got round to beta testing it yet.

Don't know about Android but the forum renders nicely on mobile Safari and is quite quick, hence the reason I've been in no rush to test tapatalk.

[mairyhinge]

Thanks for the reply Steve.

The main reason I asked, is that I use it all the time for other forums I frequent and its easy to just to skip from one to another.
However thanks for letting me know about Safari, I will bookmark it now.

regards

[Steve]

As I've already said, integration of Tapatalk is not currently a high priority taks for us. We have other web projects on the go that are of much more significance to the society.

It's all well and good to say it's "proven", and while I personally would expect it to work perfectly, we would still have to test it properly on our forum implementation and that takes time. Time which is currently being spent on the projects mentioned above.

[British BBQ Society]

Thanks for the tip, but we will not be adding it or any other version in the forseable future. We have a busy year ahead with the competition circuits, and the forum is working just fine with the current traffic and users.

[Chris__M]

Don't know about Android but the forum renders nicely on mobile Safari and is quite quick, hence the reason I've been in no rush to test tapatalk.

Actually on my Android HTC Desire (using the default browser), it doesn't render particularly well. For some reason, the left hand edge of the page is cut off, including some text, and although you can scroll to the right, no amount of scrolling to the left will reveal the hidden bit.

This hasn't ever really bothered me, as BBBQS isn't a site I need to get at when on the move. But I thought it worth mentioning, and if you need more information, or pictures to illustrate, I'm happy to help.

EDIT: Out of interest, anyone else out there using Android and specifically the HTC Desire? Are you seeing what I am seeing?

[Swindon_Ed]

Hi Chris,

I've got the Desire HD and even with it's big screen it still cuts the left hand edge off, but as you say i've never needed bbbqs that much that it couldn't wait till i gfot to a computer.

[Chris__M]

Well at least I know it isn't just me!

[Chris__M]

Having had my observation confirmed, I couldn't help but have a peek.

You can actually easily see the problem without requiring an Android phone. Simply open the forum in Firefox or IE, and reduce the browser window size to less than 1024px. You will see the container going off the left hand side of the page. and you will be unable to scroll it back. This is what we are seeing in Android.

As I see it, the problem is with the container definition in your stylesheet, which is currently

#container {
position: absolute;
left: 50%;
margin-left: -512px;
width: 1024px;
margin-top: -4px;
}

This appears to be saying "set the left of the container to 50% the way across the page width, then use a margin of -512px", in order to centre the 1024px container.

If you replace that with

#container {
margin:0
auto;
width:1024px;
}

It gives you a centred page, more or less exactly as you have it, but the page now behaves when the window goes below 1024px. I've tested this on FF and IE, under Windows, and on my Android Phone. I can't test it with an Iphone, but I don't see any reason why it shouldn't be ok.

As this is a simple stylesheet change, hopefully this is something you could implement with little trouble, should you wish to.

The other thing my examination revealed is that you seem to have two more /div tags than you have div tags. However, they appear at the end of the page, so do not seem to break any browsers.

[British BBQ Society]

Cheers Chris, i am sure we will have a play in the next few days, used to have the problem with my google nexus, took the easy route and got a blackberry