Blackberry

[Jim Axman]

I may have already asked in the past with no comment.....has anyone accessed our forum and website on a blackberry device and what are the challenges?

I'm about to go to a blackberry and hope to make the website "mobile device" compatible.   

The first challenge that comes to mind, are the separate categories.   I may divert to one discussion Forum and post everything time specific.   Ideas?

[John Ellis]

Jim, I must have missed your previous post requesting this info.  I have a blackberry and the forum works with all menus and categories.  It is strictly a text listing with no graphics.  Works well, but you will need your "superduper" reading glasses.

[John Ellis]

This is a test from Ellis blackberry

[Jim Axman]

Test from axman blackberrry

[Jim Axman]

John:sitting in the Denver airport.Need to look into how to access the images. I can see the images in galleries ok.

[Jim Axman]

john: after doing some reading last night on the SMF site (the authors of this software) I discovered it is already WAP/WAP2 compliant, which is why we can see the index and read in txt format.  I'm still working on the images portion.

[Jim Axman]

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[Des]

check your blackberry settings, it may be set to not display the images, and thus speed up the loading of pages.

[Jim Axman]

Des:  I can see images on all my 5 email accounts and All internet browser links, but not on this forum site.
I can see images in all our galleries, etc....
At first I thought it had something to do with embedded images in the postings versus the thumbnail attachments, but that's not it.   Knowing you can see them is even more frustrating....
I'll keep working on it.  Thanks

[Des]

While I haven't used a Blackberry device, I understand the concept of it, can you install different applications? like with other PDA devices?

something worth testing....can you see this image?

I have linked it from my photobucket (free image hosting service) account:



or this one, posting it using html code:

<a href="http://s262.photobucket.com/albums/ii118/vengeanceunlimited/high%20mileage/?action=view&current=061.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii118/vengeanceunlimited/high%20mileage/061.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket Image Hosting"></a>

[Scott Montoney]

I can't see images on mine either.

[Jim Axman]

if I can see images in other parts of the website, there must be some code in the php written to make it browser friendly but not necessarily WAP compliant.  I'm about to upload a new version (thanks to a heads up from Des) and maybe in some later versions something will change.....I don't have time to surf the many forums of the software authors....but someday it will begin to bug me and I'll spend some time reading.

[Jim Axman]

After posting this several months ago, I have since learned that the authors of the SMF forum software have intentionally coded the templates to NOT show images, whereas a couple of the other 100 forum software programs do.  The reasoning, is the time needed to load numerous images on your blackberry.  In our case, we have about 4500 images in storage.  Not all need load at once, but some are huge and would over run the scope and require resizing.

[Paavo]

Test message!
Nokia 9300