vBulletin on PDA

[tomowa]

I use my Pockect PC or PDA, what ever the best term to call them is, throughout the day to get email and browse the internet.
On a SMF forum I visit, it automatically formats the pages into 'text only' mode, I guess it knows the user agent is 'IE pocket edition'.
This vBulletin forum that HG uses, doesn't do that. I get all the page formats images, which makes for a very slow load time.
I haven't found a setting that will force a 'text only' mode either. Does anyone know if I may be missing something, or is SMF that much more advanced than vBulletin

Thanks, Tom

[Eric]

I know that Invision Power Board has a feature like that too. I'm pretty sure that Vbulletin does as well, maybe it's just turned off for this board.

[tomowa]

Thanks Eric, I'll send in a ticket and see what they say.Just to load this page on my PDA, was 201kb, and that is with images, signature's and avatar's turned off in user options....

[tomowa]

You can go here http://www.vbulletin.com/admindemo.php and create a functional 24 hour demo account, complete with admin functions.
I find no setting related to 'text only' mode .
So I answered my own question .

[Eric]

Oh well... must have just been Invision that allows that feature.

[gwyneth]

Originally Posted by Eric

Oh well... must have just been Invision that allows that feature.

And SMF, and a few others. It's why people have predicted for almost 10 years now that tables-based layout will become a problem.

[tomowa]

Hi Gwyneth,

So your saying vbulletin is 'tables based'? As opposed to a CSS design?
Just curious....I gave up on IPB a few years ago after version 1.3, when they started licensing $ yet (which I don't begrudge them), and then went to SMF, yes because it's free (but free is good for a family forum, that generates me no $).
In browsing the web, I'd say I run across vbulletin more than any other forum, and since they license $$ it, you'd think they'ed have the latest greatest features for it

[gwyneth]

Originally Posted by tomowa

Hi Gwyneth, So your saying vbulletin is 'tables based'? As opposed to a CSS design?

Here is the style information for the post in which you asked that question:

html > body > table > tbody > tr > td > table > tbody > tr > td > table > tbody > tr > td .cwrap > div #posts > div > div .page > div > div #edit50134 > div > div .page > div > div > table #post50134 .tborder > tbody > tr > td .alt1 > div

It was hard to get the CSS viewer to sit still long enough for me to copy the info, so (after further study) it looks as if the CSS above is for the response form and that the style info for a post displayed in read mode is more like:

html > body > table > tbody > tr > td > table > tbody > tr > td > table > tbody > tr > td .cwrap > div > div .page > div > table > tbody > tr > td .smallfont

Doing a forum without relying on any tables is almost non-extistent, but still...that's an awful lot of overhead to carry.

[Sam]

There is a text only forum on this site..

http://forums.hostgator.com/archive//

[Serra]

Originally Posted by _Sam_

There is a text only forum on this site..

http://forums.hostgator.com/archive//

What in the heck order are those posts in? Very strange.

[Sam]

Yeh i was wondering the same thing when i found it

[gwyneth]

vBulletin archives always look like that--I think the order has to do with when the archives are saved, or something at the admin end, and the internal number of the threads.