resolved iPhone forum view

[AZZA]

Gents, when viewing the site on my iPhone I don't seem to get the whole page displayed and on the phone and iPad can't enlarge or move the page but they both work on other sites.

Would appreciate any advice by those in the know

[keen_as]

Androids having the same issues

[Rhet]

Been having the same issue with my iPhone for a few months now. IPad is fine if it's longways (landscape).

Is there anyway to minimise the columns on the far right? (Activity stream and Statistics)

[Terry H]

AFO hasn't viewed correctly on my iPhone for ages. I can see the left third (approx) of the page only and cannot scrolling to the right. That is in the MOBILE version.

When I switch to Desktop Version (button at the bottom of the screen) the page loads as it would on the computer, and loads properly. The only downside is you have to do a little scrolling around, but at least the loads properly and you can read the whole page.

[woody1]

I disable the mobile page on pretty much every site I go to, I think they are a waste of time.

Would it be possible for Admin to just disable the mobile site altogether? As it doesn't show the whole site there is not much point having it, the desktop site is easy enough to navigate on mobile.

As a side note, I own 3 websites and only bothered building a mobile site for one of them, I am currently testing to see if the mobile site improves sales and it hasn't shown any differance in sales, although I think people are staying on the site longer. I would be interested to hear peoples opinions on mobile versions

[Terry H]

woody, most of the time I loathe mobile versions.

I find a lot of mobile versions are cut down editions of the real page, so you can't even access (easily) half the stuff you want. Given most smartphones/tablets etc display the full page properly anyway, why change it? The only reason I can think is for bandwidth/speed loading issues. Unless you're in whoop whoop or for some other reason have poor 3G coverage (and soon to be LTE) the websites should load reasonably quickly. This of course is excluding image or video intensive websites.

[woody1]

Yep, you are right about loading speeds. I agree that this wont be an issue in coming years, to be honest I don't think its an issue for most people now anyway. Also, most people don't go anywhere near the data allowance on their cap plans

[fifis101]

Mobile versions are normally good to a certain extent but when you need more options, it's just best to switch to the normal (desktop) views.

[The Mad Hughesy]

It's annoying as hell on iPhone. Disabling it all together would be my wish.

Put it to a poll..?

[billythakid]

Would be better to put the desktop view button in the top left hand corner

[The Mad Hughesy]

Would be better to put the desktop view button in the top left hand corner

Great idea, instead of scrolling to the bottom of the page

[woody1]

If everyone is disabling it then I don't see the point of having it at all