[OT] dfeed for mobile

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Fri Dec 23 07:48:35 PST 2011


On 2011-12-23 08:54, foobar wrote:
> On Thursday, 22 December 2011 at 20:24:08 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>> On Thursday, 22 December 2011 at 14:09:42 UTC, foobar wrote:
>>> I was reading the NG on my phone and I just thought that it would be
>>> very useful to have a mobile version. What do you think?
>>
>> What phone do you use?
>>
>> Is a browser simulator easily available?
>
> I use an Android phone but I don't believe it matters. I didn't request
> an android app (of which btw there's only a single one which also
> happens to be non-free) just a mobile version of the site. Shouldn't a
> browser extension to see the mobile site suffice for that?
>
> I believe an actual android app would require more effort and I'm not
> sure it's worth it. Also Iphoners will want an iOS version as well.
>
> I've just did a quick search for "mobile" in the chrome web store (for
> chrome extensions) and it brings a bunch of emulators and firefox should
> have simillar extensions.

I'm not sure what these extensions are capable of but I would recommend 
a proper simulator to make sure it is as close to a real phone as 
possible. Both iOS and Andriod uses Webkit, Firefox doesn't. I don't 
know if these extensions would support swipe gestures for example.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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