mobile theme?

[Rock McLargeHuge]

Can we have a nice mobile theme please? The normal theme is crap on my phone.

 

[Eluvatar]

I'll look into it.

 

[Rock McLargeHuge]

Thanks buddy!

 

[Iro]

If anyone wants my input, this isn't the first time mobile forum access has been discussed, even in TNP. If you just google "mobile zetaboards," it'll give you an idea of the issue.

The Zetaboards forum service is good for a lot, but one thing it isn't friendly to is developers. If there was a mobile operator, someone would have posted and executed it already, but there isn't. You can't go into forum code like sister service Invisionfree, and you can't add much of anything outside of VFX.

To give you an idea of the shitstorm, the Zetaboards head developer promised to look into making Zetaboards mobile in 2011.

 

[Rock McLargeHuge]

Can you not add an alternative stylesheet? Javascript can detect the browser and switch stylesheets.

 

[Iro]

There's BBcode alternatives to everything- but you can't edit in Zetaboards source code besides templates.

 

[Rock McLargeHuge]

hmm... I'm sure its doable.

 

[Eluvatar]

Yeah I don't exactly know what Iro is talking about. The things we can do with CSS and jQuery should be enough to make a passable mobile version.

 

[Rock McLargeHuge]

http://if.invisionfree.com/topic/5118277/1/ there you go Elu. A few pointers on how others have done it. The biggest pain in the ass will be colours and sizes I suppose.

 

[Rock McLargeHuge]

Iro, I don't mean mobile access, I just mean a mobile friendly theme so I dont have to resize everything to read threads etc