Reply to: Tapatalk 2

[northernladuk]

I would like an Android app. Everytime I open on my Samsung General it is just full of crap that isn't worth reading. Must be bugged.

[pmeswani]

iPhone & iPad versions.... any difference? Should I save my pennies and just get the phone version and use it on both? Or should I tell Mrs PL that we've no money for christmas as I've blown our last 2.99 on a slightly better version of the same thing for the bigger toy.

If all you do is spend 2.99 with your mrs, I say go for it. You have nothing to lose.

[Pondlife]

iPhone & iPad versions.... any difference? Should I save my pennies and just get the phone version and use it on both? Or should I tell Mrs PL that we've no money for christmas as I've blown our last 2.99 on a slightly better version of the same thing for the bigger toy.

[Gentile]

Hi Gentile,

Thanks for taking the time to clarify, much appreciated! Thought you had been getting the nags from here so really pleased this one plays nicely. Your Daily Wail reading surprises me

Admin



No worries - is a really nice system, should have done it sooner

Know thy enemy. To be fair, The Grauniad's mobile app isn't any better.

[administrator]

Thanks for the response, admin. My post about was about mobile versions of websites and mobile apps in the general. I hadn't realised you'd implemented yours yet. e.g. the Daily Mail spam you with popups for their Android mobile app every single time you visit, and LinkedIn is particularly bad at trying to railroad you into their unusable mobile version. (Try doing anything beyond looking at your own profile via a smartphone on LI, e.g. looking at recommendations you've given others, and it catapults you into the crappy mobile version repeatedly until you give up in frustration. It can't even seem to remember your stated preference within the same session, let alone next time you visit. It also exhibits that lazy, annoying behaviour of taking you to a set front page when you repeatedly choose the desktop version, instead of trying to show you the page you were viewing's full version. )

I've just checked CUK's app on my mobile devices (Android on Galaxy S2 phone, and Android on Asus Transformer tablet). Your (new?) site doesn't exhibit the above problems. It asks you once and once only on each device if you want to download your app, and then doesn't ask again. I didn't see any mobile version being presented, so I can't comment on that.

Hi Gentile,

Thanks for taking the time to clarify, much appreciated! Thought you had been getting the nags from here so really pleased this one plays nicely. Your Daily Wail reading surprises me

Admin

Thank you admin and mods, you

No worries - is a really nice system, should have done it sooner

[The Spartan]

Thank you admin and mods, you

[cojak]

Yep.

[The Spartan]

So the forum is now Tapatalk enabled?

[Gentile]

Gentile - I have tried it on the iPad and works fine for me, no prompt to download the app once I have cancelled it. What device are you using when getting continually nagged?

Thanks for the response, admin. My post about was about mobile versions of websites and mobile apps in the general. I hadn't realised you'd implemented yours yet. e.g. the Daily Mail spam you with popups for their Android mobile app every single time you visit, and LinkedIn is particularly bad at trying to railroad you into their unusable mobile version. (Try doing anything beyond looking at your own profile via a smartphone on LI, e.g. looking at recommendations you've given others, and it catapults you into the crappy mobile version repeatedly until you give up in frustration. It can't even seem to remember your stated preference within the same session, let alone next time you visit. It also exhibits that lazy, annoying behaviour of taking you to a set front page when you repeatedly choose the desktop version, instead of trying to show you the page you were viewing's full version. )

I've just checked CUK's app on my mobile devices (Android on Galaxy S2 phone, and Android on Asus Transformer tablet). Your (new?) site doesn't exhibit the above problems. It asks you once and once only on each device if you want to download your app, and then doesn't ask again. I didn't see any mobile version being presented, so I can't comment on that.

[administrator]

Gentile - I have tried it on the iPad and works fine for me, no prompt to download the app once I have cancelled it. What device are you using when getting continually nagged?

[administrator]

I hate "mobile versions" of the vast majority of websites. This is 2012, and like most people I have a fully-functional smartphone. It was bad enough trying to use the internet via WAP ten years ago. Please don't try and emulate that disappointing experience across 3G/4G!

Most mobile sites are appallingly-designed, with a seemingly-pathological compulsion on the part of their developers to catapult you back into the mobile version at every turn. Plus they make no distinction between Android tablets and Android phones, which makes using a tablet a frustrating experience. And if you select the "show me the un-mangled desktop site" link hidden away at the bottom of the page, some developers lazily take you out to the main page of their site rather than to the full version of the page you were looking at when you clicked the link. Grrrrr!

And as for sites that deface their content with a full-screen "Would you like to download our Android/iPhone App!!!!1111!!?" popup. Every. Single. Time. You. Visit. Give me strength. Do you know I wouldn't like to download special software merely to visit a website?

So, dear admin and Nick, please, please, please don't implement a mobile CUK site. Or, unlike most sites that have a mobile version, if you do at least please make judicious use of Cookies so that those of us who hate getting noddy CEEFAX-versions of sites on our smartphones can turn it off once and once only and have that preference respected thereafter.

Will have a look at it, agree it should honour the fact it has been declined.

Maybe you should ask in Accounting if you can claim it as an expense?

I wouldn't want to incur the wrath of any Daily Mail readers... (of course I expenced it!)

[SimonMac]

Wicked - was just going to have a look. Slightly annoyed at having to pay for iPad and Android apps but at less that a fiver I guess I shouldn't be too peeved

Maybe you should ask in Accounting if you can claim it as an expense?

[Gentile]

Not worth getting then, thanks guys. It'd be nice to have a an Android version of this forum if possible

I hate "mobile versions" of the vast majority of websites. This is 2012, and like most people I have a fully-functional smartphone. It was bad enough trying to use the internet via WAP ten years ago. Please don't try and emulate that disappointing experience across 3G/4G!

Most mobile sites are appallingly-designed, with a seemingly-pathological compulsion on the part of their developers to catapult you back into the mobile version at every turn. Plus they make no distinction between Android tablets and Android phones, which makes using a tablet a frustrating experience. And if you select the "show me the un-mangled desktop site" link hidden away at the bottom of the page, some developers lazily take you out to the main page of their site rather than to the full version of the page you were looking at when you clicked the link. Grrrrr!

And as for sites that deface their content with a full-screen "Would you like to download our Android/iPhone App!!!!1111!!?" popup. Every. Single. Time. You. Visit. Give me strength. Do you know I wouldn't like to download special software merely to visit a website?

So, dear admin and Nick, please, please, please don't implement a mobile CUK site. Or, unlike most sites that have a mobile version, if you do at least please make judicious use of Cookies so that those of us who hate getting noddy CEEFAX-versions of sites on our smartphones can turn it off once and once only and have that preference respected thereafter.

[Spacecadet]

Re: Tapatalk 2

Testing again, this time with the signature removed in the settings :-)

[Spacecadet]

Re: Tapatalk 2

Testing

(I manually deleted the signature)