[upstateguy]

 
and get used to the new forum. 

 
Besides, Jude just posted that he's on the job.
 
 
So in the mean time,
 
Stay tuned for the HeadFi Store !
 
'Your One Stop Hobby Shop'.
 
USG

 

[jude]

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So in the mean time,
 
Stay tuned for the HeadFi Store !
 
'Your One Stop Hobby Shop'.
 
USG

Our motto for The Head-Fi Store?  Guns, amps, coffee, auto parts, intimate wear, headphones and payday loans.
 
Of course, I'm kidding.  There's no Head-Fi Store--well, except this one.
 
To get back on topic:  Again, the iPhone/iPad compatibility issues are rather high on my list of priorities, since I browse/moderate/administer Head-Fi from an iPhone quite often.

 

[monsieurguzel]

  That is wonderful to hear that you are working on a good elegant solution for those mobile platforms!  As it is now, it seems that more and more people will be accessing the internet through lighter browsers anyhow.
 
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Trust me, monsieurguzel, nobody is more aware of this than me, as I do a great deal of Head-Fi reading/moderating/administration from my iPhone.  Seeing the experience improved on the iPhone/iPad is a gigantic priority, and I'm championing it hard--real hard.

 

[jude]

 
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  That is wonderful to hear that you are working on a good elegant solution for those mobile platforms!  As it is now, it seems that more and more people will be accessing the internet through lighter browsers anyhow.
 

 

There are plans for more mobile elegance, as I understand it.  I haven't discussed with them exactly what those plans are yet, as there's just so much else to deal with right now.
 
One immediate fix I'm after is making sure the buttons and links work and actuate properly with the iPhone/iPad.  Right now, I can't send a PM, as the button to send the PM does not work on the iPhone/iPad.

 

[devwild]

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One immediate fix I'm after is making sure the buttons and links work and actuate properly with the iPhone/iPad.  Right now, I can't send a PM, as the button to send the PM does not work on the iPhone/iPad.

You also have to code your post in html if the message is more than one paragraph of plain text, which is especially difficult with most touch screen keyboards. I know it's a harder fix than a button, but I would think that's going to be a rather significant problem. This is the first forum software I've seen without a simplified text box for not-fully-supported browsers - even something that could handle just line breaks. Forcing raw html on users - and not even visually indicating that until after you submit a message - is a show-stopper forum bug in my opinion.

 

[jude]

 
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You also have to code your post in html if the message is more than one paragraph of plain text, which is especially difficult with most touch screen keyboards. I know it's a harder fix than a button, but I would think that's going to be a rather significant problem. This is the first forum software I've seen without a simplified text box for not-fully-supported browsers - even something that could handle just line breaks. Forcing raw html on users - and not even visually indicating that until after you submit a message - is a show-stopper forum bug in my opinion.

devwild, if anyone else reported that multi-paragraph issue before, I haven't seen it.  I just tested it on my iPhone, and duplicated it.  Thank you very much for reporting it.
 
Admittedly, what I am pushing for, at least as hard as almost anything else, are improvements--in some ways some simplifications of--the text editing facilities of this platform.
 
Thanks again.

 

[devwild]

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devwild, if anyone else reported that multi-paragraph issue before, I haven't seen it.  I just tested it on my iPhone, and duplicated it.  Thank you very much for reporting it.
 
Admittedly, what I am pushing for, at least as hard as almost anything else, are improvements--in some ways some simplifications of--the text editing facilities of this platform.
 
Thanks again.

Heh, that's kind of surprising, glad I spoke up then. Thanks for checking.

 

[grokit]

It would be great if posting text from the clipboard it was always converted to plain text when pasted into the text-entry box, like it was in the old forum. I have resorted to converting rich pasted text to plain text in the Text Edit app first, kind of a pain.

 

[ford2]

 
 
Quote:Of course, I'm kidding.  There's no Head-Fi Store.
 
 
Not Yet.

 

[darckhart]

the amount of jscript in here is overwhelming and, i am agreeing, mostly un-needed. i have been avoiding mobile browsing of this site (opera mini) because of that clunkiness and the fact that this site just loads sloooowly. plus ads take up too much real estate on my dinky screen. on the desktop side (ff v2.0.0.20 with many plugins), the site is nearly unusable even though i've tried to make my plugins play nicely by setting them as lax as i can. i am mostly bothered by the PM system when i say that: sending/editing messages, etc, because my cursor disappears then i can't type in the boxes, slidy popups dont unfurl correctly, and sometimes clicking buttons produces no results. browsing the forum posts for reading is pretty easy and tolerable though. thanks for considering my issues.

 

[grokit]

 
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It would be great if posting text from the clipboard it was always converted to plain text when pasted into the text-entry box, like it was in the old forum. I have resorted to converting rich pasted text to plain text in the Text Edit app first, kind of a pain.

 
X2, that's exactly what I am doing on a Mac, in Windows I use Gmail to convert the text.
 
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the amount of jscript in here is overwhelming

 
Yup.

 

[ericj]

 
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X2, that's exactly what I am doing on a Mac, in Windows I use Gmail to convert the text.
 
 
Yup.

 
Initially, when i realized that we can edit html source, I thought that was good - because it might be just enough to be useful. Like on fark.com (which has otherwise horrid software).
 
But it's just so freakin messy. There's a lot of code in there, and i don't have the time or inclination to wade through it.