Slashdot Mobile: Now For Tablets As Well As Phones

Gaurav Kuchhal (Head of Product, Slashdot) writes "Slashdot Mobile has finally made it out of the gates for tablets as well as phones. The Mobile site for phones launched some weeks back, but now you can take advantage of the changes we've made to read Slashdot easier to read through touch-screen devices on tablets as well as phones. That includes features we've folded in to the mobile version from the desktop-browser view of the site, so you can scan user profiles, sip from the Firehose, and keep up with notifications. See this blog post for more details, and keep the feedback coming. If you see a problem, please tell us about it!"

Comments

any chance of getting those in the reg. version?

[Trepidity]

Some of those features seem pretty useful, especially notification of replies. Will they be added to the regular, non-mobile/tablet version of the website as well?

Good work!

[sootman]

Sincerely. Even though I still use this system that I banged together a few years ago (more info here), the new mbeta page looks really nice.

Re:Question

[gl4ss]

Serious question. Why did you create a separate web site rather than just use a different stylesheet with the "handheld" css media type?

because they're realistic? name one complex forum type of site for which the different stylesheet approach works?

this saves memory on the handheld sites - or at least makes it simpler for deciding which javascript to load to make the site function(and in which way).
or at least should.

(mobile browsers have different quirks and so forth.. and it's good if you can have the option of deciding which to go to. also some tablets run desktop os's and browsers..)

Missing important feature

[lucm]

How come there is no tiles? Give us tiles!

slow and clumsy

[godrik]

I just tried on my htc desire with cianogene mod. It is much slower than the "original" version. I need to click a link to read the summary, which completely defeat the purpose of having a homepage. If I want to click the stories I want to read, i'd use an RSS feed reader not slashdot home page.

I won't use it.

tiny useless summaries

[kunwon1]

give us the full summary of every article on the index page, or this is completely useless. if i have to click on and then wait for the loading of every individual story just to get summaries, there's no way i'll use the mobile site.

Re:tiny useless summaries

[kunwon1]

further, don't break the back button with your ajax crap. if i 'load more articles' seven times then click on one of the articles, then press the back button, i shouldn't have to press the 'load more articles' button seven more times to get back to my place.

Re:Tablet is HIGHER resolution than many laptops

[green1]

Exactly this. I don't EVER want to see a mobile version of any website on my tablet. And yet far too many websites refuse to give me the full site no matter what I click, ignoring the flag in my browser for "request desktop version" and not having anything of their own I can click to get there.

I have never seen a site that works better on my tablet in mobile version than full, but I have seen many sites refuse to let me even try the full version.

Additionally, my phone is now in the same range, I only want the desktop version on it too. again, not an option on many sites.