But I'm pretty sure the Vanilla team will come up with something in this area... they've been doing some awesome work and best of all they've been listening
If any developers out there know Vanilla's HTML/PHP View controllers pretty well and want to collaborate on this let me know.
I did a custom helvetica based theme for dejitaru above and want to do an iphone based version but requires to much view/html/php editing that I don't want to mess with.
Too many people rely on 3rd party plugins already. Some simple css can do what they are doing and it's free.
I could style the forum as is for the iphone (and have), that's not the problem. It's not really even detection though having different HTML views served for a mobile device would be icing on the cake... (As it stands now, you detect using CSS viewport and basically using display/visibility tricks in the CSS to show/hide html markup that may or may not be needed for the mobile view)
My biggest complaint and it goes for 99% of the websites that have "mobile" versions is they never sit back and think about HOW the user is using the site/application on their mobile device. In general if you're using a forum on a mobile device you're looking for something specific (search) or want to be able to browse/post in a thread relatively easy. Things like profiles, activity, etc aren't needed. Also have you tried "logging" in using the iphone, the modal window is never in view when you click to sign in.
@empirikal the beauty of tapatalk is it has those included and would also help all Vanilla Forum owners to get more exposure. You are right though. Mobile versions are about getting information or searching. But from an admin perspective, it would be nice to be able to moderate the forum from an iPhone or another device. Current regular themes do not translate well. Has anyone succeeded in creating a fully functional iphone theme for this? Maybe I missed it? Or would someone be willing to share it in the addon directory If not its on my wishlist, so I can always create one, but really don't want to reinvent the wheel.
if someone is able to help me with the php to add a meta and link tag to the head. I can pretty quickly write an iphone stylesheet.
but I need some things added to the head before I can do anything.
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;" />
and
<link media="only screen and (max-device-width: 480px)" href="/iphone.css" type= "text/css" rel="stylesheet" />
I know some php but am primarily a designer / front end dev and the themeing system in vanilla 2 is way too weird, convoluted and undocumented for me have half the time needed to figure it out. I do however, write iphone css often at my day job so making something for this should be pretty quick.
$Sender->Head->AddTag('meta', array('name'=>'viewport', 'content' => 'width=device-width;')); You could do that in a Base_Render_Before(&$Sender) function to apply the meta tag site-wide, or call it in a specific controller (e.g. DiscussionController_Render_Before) to do a page-by-page basis.
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Woo!
This new one will be V2 only.
1) Integration with Wordpress (similar to BBPress)
2) iPhone optimized theme (similar to the WPtouch plugin for Wordpress)
I think these will give Vanilla a significant competitive edge in today's market and get it even closer to the big leagues.
But I'm pretty sure the Vanilla team will come up with something in this area... they've been doing some awesome work and best of all they've been listening
It would be low on my to do list though... but it would be a great way to promote Vanilla.
I did a custom helvetica based theme for dejitaru above and want to do an iphone based version but requires to much view/html/php editing that I don't want to mess with.
(helvetica theme I created)
I have not released it but I have considered. We're still beta testing/tweaking it. Maybe soon.
http://www.tapatalk.com/api/api.php
I could style the forum as is for the iphone (and have), that's not the problem. It's not really even detection though having different HTML views served for a mobile device would be icing on the cake... (As it stands now, you detect using CSS viewport and basically using display/visibility tricks in the CSS to show/hide html markup that may or may not be needed for the mobile view)
My biggest complaint and it goes for 99% of the websites that have "mobile" versions is they never sit back and think about HOW the user is using the site/application on their mobile device. In general if you're using a forum on a mobile device you're looking for something specific (search) or want to be able to browse/post in a thread relatively easy. Things like profiles, activity, etc aren't needed. Also have you tried "logging" in using the iphone, the modal window is never in view when you click to sign in.
Anyways end rant.
but I need some things added to the head before I can do anything.
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;" /> and <link media="only screen and (max-device-width: 480px)" href="/iphone.css" type= "text/css" rel="stylesheet" />I know some php but am primarily a designer / front end dev and the themeing system in vanilla 2 is way too weird, convoluted and undocumented for me have half the time needed to figure it out. I do however, write iphone css often at my day job so making something for this should be pretty quick.
$Sender->Head->AddTag('meta', array('name'=>'viewport', 'content' => 'width=device-width;'));You could do that in a Base_Render_Before(&$Sender) function to apply the meta tag site-wide, or call it in a specific controller (e.g. DiscussionController_Render_Before) to do a page-by-page basis.