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[Mark]

I'm not discussing about low-bandwith here...i was talking about practicality that Tapatalk offers. However i would not mind if a mobile version of the site could be developed, mobile users will enjoy it anyway.

[AmyV]

I'm not discussing about low-bandwith here...i was talking about practicality that Tapatalk offers. However i would not mind if a mobile version of the site could be developed, mobile users will enjoy it anyway.

Tapatalk might offer practicality but like Gandalf said, (let's put it into basic words), Argonath would not earn money from the website from the ads that are displayed on here. Tapatalk use their OWN ads, meaning they are earning their own revenue, completely separate to Argonath. If this app was to become popular throughout the community, a huge percentage of internet users are now mobile (if not the majority), and this would badly affect Argonath's revenue. This means less money. Which means bills aren't being paid.

So that's out of the question. If someone could invest their time creating a said app for SMF which supports Argonath's own monetization that would be great, but that might not happen.

[Mark]

Yeah i understand that , as i said in the previous post a mobile version of the site could be also good. 

[Pandalink]

Yeah i understand that , as i said in the previous post a mobile version of the site could be also good.

Mobile versions of sites are almost always totally inferior to the desktop version. Anything with a 4-inch screen or bigger is absolutely fine for viewing desktop sites if you make use of the zoom and pinch features to move around it.

The only way to make it work is a fucking really well designed dedicated app, something which I think is a little out of scope for this forum.

[Gandalf]

Mobile versions of sites are almost always totally inferior to the desktop version. Anything with a 4-inch screen or bigger is absolutely fine for viewing desktop sites if you make use of the zoom and pinch features to move around it.

The only way to make it work is a f**cking really well designed dedicated app, something which I think is a little out of scope for this forum.

It seems that designing is not actually a large issue. After all in most cases an app is nothing more as a shell around the information to display it in a different manner.

[SugarD]

Going off of Teddy's quote, SMF 2.1.x will be offering a much better theming system with full mobile browser support, assuming the theme itself is designed to support this. Once released, this modification won't really be necessary to properly get the pages to show up, as they will automatically transform to a mobile mode when accessed with an applicable device.

As for this theme itself, I'm trying to remake it in SMF 2.1.x, however it is incredibly difficult as the base was never upgraded to the current version of SMF 2.0.x, and the original author has since disappeared. If anyone is interested in assisting that has decent PHP, HTML, CSS, and SMF 2.x knowledge, shoot me a PM and maybe we can get the design working with wireless browsers for future use.

For those interested in SMF 2.1.x's mobile support plans, here is an example rendering of a theme in SMF 2.1.x using the mobile mode:


Do keep in mind that as the world transitions more and more to smartphone usage that these "legacy" methods are needed less and less. Yes, they do load faster and use less data, but most smartphones now support full desktop versions of websites natively. Worst case scenario, that can be used too.