Mobile HDColumbus.net?

[zelig2]

Scott,

Is there any plugin for vBulliten to support mobile devices? I just was given a Treo 700w and I'm able to surf the net and do all that email jazz. I'd love to be able to read & post on the forum from my phone. I searched over at vBulletin.org and found some mention of a WAP plugin. Is there anything like that for the site here?

Just wondering...

[Scott]

If you're a member of tivocommunity.com, browse out to their site and see if their mobile theme works on your treo (from my quick research, it seems to be just a skin change; although, not all features are made available). If it seems to work okay, let me know, I think I can track down where they got the theme from and install it as a selection here.

[Scott]

I've been meaning to mention this for awhile as well--but I also have an RSS feed running for the site (not sure if your treo can get RSS).

You can get your feed @

http://www.hdcolumbus.net/vb-hdtv/external.php?type=RSS and it will keep you up-to-date with updated threads...

We are a web 1.8 shop baby! :D

[zelig2]

I tried out the mobile skin for the tivo site that you mentioned. Seems to work great on my Treo. Is it easy to get that skin for our site?

[Scott]

I'll so some poking around this weekend and let you know what I come up with.

[Scott]

Try the new theme out for mobile devices: HDC - Mobile

Please let me know how it works.

[zelig2]

It's usable for the forums. But the main page is a bit tricky. For me I should have no problem. Question for you. I haven't signed in yet on the mobile, but will the mobile theme stick with the account so when I log in on the computer I get the same theme?

[Scott]

Yeah, it's really designed for VB 3.03 but I ported it over to 3.5.x--and for the forums only. The main page uses VBCMPS, so it may not fuction well.

I have the themes setup to cookie by default. As long as you do not set your profile to default to the mobile theme, your PC/Mac should default to whatever you had the theme set to.

[Scott]

Direct your mobile device to http://mobile.hdcolumbus.net

This new subdomain will automatically re-direct you to the forum home and apply the mobile theme.

[zelig2]

sweet. I'm typing this on my Treo. Looks great so far. The only weird part is some kind of split-screen bar at the bottom while I browse around. Otherwise it's perfect for me. Thanks again.

[scgalena]

Thought I would test the Mobile HDColumbus.net site on a Pocket PC. Seems to be working great for me so far. Figured since I'm looking at an HD site I probably should be using 16 x 9 view mode rather than 4 x 3. Ha.

[zelig2]

Going to mobile.hdcolumbus.net on my computer at home resets the cookie so that when I load up hdcolumbus.net I get the mobile style with no drop down box to change it. I just went to the user control panel to switch it back. Maybe only allow the mobile theme on the mobile site? Is that even possible?

[Scott]

Update: I've been fiddling with your suggestion for the past couple of weeks here and there and I haven't been able to develop a workable solution for the auto-detection of WAP devices. I think I'll probably end up writing some code into the mobile template to allow for template changes in case a browser happens upon the mobile.hdcolumbus.net sub.

I'll keep you posted.