Tue
May 13 2008
04:17 pm
Can't get enough KnoxViews?
By: R. Neal

We've setup a specially formatted version of KnoxViews for when you gotta have it on your mobile devices with a minimum of decoration and frills.

Put this link in your mobile favorites:

http://knoxviews.mobi

(P.S. Let me know how, or if, it works. I don't have any way to test it on a cellphone, iPhone, PDA, etc.)

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Anonymous's picture

Works pretty good from my

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 2008/05/13 - 4:32pm.

Works pretty good from my blackberry.

R. Neal's picture

Awesome. Thanks!

Submitted by R. Neal on Tue, 2008/05/13 - 4:37pm.

Awesome. Thanks!

Russ's picture

Works, but

Submitted by Russ on Tue, 2008/05/13 - 4:47pm.

The site works, but I can't log in to my account. I can enter my username and password, but it doesn't log me in. I don't get any error messages.

Since I'm not logged in, I'd have to enter the captcha text to post a comment. For some reason, the captcha image doesn't show (I just get a red X).

(I'm using a Sanyo flip phone (MM 7500, I think). I spend way more time surfing the Web on that phone than I ever expected to. Images usually show up normally.)

~Russ

R. Neal's picture

Russ, thanks for the test. I

Submitted by R. Neal on Tue, 2008/05/13 - 4:49pm.

Russ, thanks for the test.

I think maybe you have to allow cookies for login to work? Works OK thru a browser, but I'm not sure how good a test that is.

Will look into the captcha problem...

Bill Lyons's picture

Mobile on Blackberry

Submitted by Bill Lyons on Tue, 2008/05/13 - 5:03pm.

I have a Blackberry 8130. It is much better than the .com version and is quite useable. My only suggestion, if it is possible for the mobile version, would be to reduce the font size on for the posts themselves. The bolded large fonts overwhelm the rest of the text. Thanks for doing this.

R. Neal's picture

OK, that should be changed

Submitted by R. Neal on Tue, 2008/05/13 - 6:07pm.

OK, that should be changed Bill. Thanks.

(Still looking in to the login and captcha issues.)

R. Neal's picture

Hey, Russ:Captcha image

Submitted by R. Neal on Tue, 2008/05/13 - 4:59pm.

Hey, Russ:

Captcha image seems to work OK in a browser when logged out. The image link is something like:

"http://knoxviews.mobi/image_captcha/1080670331"

Is that the type of URL you see?

Also, do you see any other images?

Russ's picture

Cookies

Submitted by Russ on Tue, 2008/05/13 - 5:00pm.

Cookies are automatically enabled on my phone. For example, I stay logged in to my Fandango account for a month or two before the cookie resets and I have to log in again (I use Fandango from my phone quite often). Same with Bloglines.

I just tried the mobile URL in Internet Explorer, and I was able to log in.

I'm not aware of any differences in mobile cookies vs. standard browser cookies, since they're just text files, but there might be some subtle difference that's preventing the cookie from being written on my phone.

Dunno.

~Russ

Russ's picture

Captcha URL

Submitted by Russ on Tue, 2008/05/13 - 5:06pm.

Yes, the captcha URL looks like the one you listed above. It's just not displaying. Avatars are displaying correctly.

~Russ

Opinari's picture

Treo 680

Submitted by Opinari on Tue, 2008/05/13 - 6:10pm.

Tested and loads in appx. 7 seconds, 85kb, 2nd page load with login took 10 seconds, 97kb. Looks good in Blazer. Will test in Opera Mini as well.

And many thanks from those of us who rely heavily on mobile browsing (although I am finishing this post from IE7).

Andy Axel's picture

Looks ok here. Posting from

Submitted by Andy Axel on Tue, 2008/05/13 - 8:05pm.

Looks ok here.

Posting from my iPhone ver. 1.1.6 or whatever the most recent build is.
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Mike Cohen's picture

Mobi

Submitted by Mike Cohen on Wed, 2008/05/14 - 9:18am.

Seems to work fine on the Motorola Q.

Now I can blame Knoxviews when I get caught by a Redflex cam running a light.

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