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RE: Forum not showing properly in mobile devices

Posted by GregChapman on May 26, 2015; 9:43am
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Forum-not-showing-properly-in-mobile-devices-tp7589906p7594878.html

Hi Ian,

Oh for a better memory! In this case I didn't need the URL of the site. I should have remembered.

The problem with the gallery's thumbnail page is that, like almost all Nabble's screens, they are based on HTML tables - and tables are designed for tabular data only and always display in a fixed set of columns and rows.

So far, and the work is not complete, Nabble has been working on the most used forum pages, adjusting for small screens by dropping some items, such as avatars, which only repeat information also presented as text, from display on narrow screens, but is retaining the page's tabular structure. In the main, this strikes me as legitimate - and workable - as the remaining text comprises of relatively small components and will wrap where necessary.

However, it simply does not work for the gallery pages. Even two thumbnail images will be too wide on most phone screens in portrait mode. They need to be to be coded as lists, with appropriate styling to allow each thumbnail (and its associated text) to drop to the next line when space does not permit it alongside the previous thumbnail.

I think it's appropriate for me to raise this as a "Premium Support" issue. I do have a "Gallery" on one of my sites, but have kept it invisible for ordinary users because of the lack of a feature which I feel makes the existing gallery option between exceedingly awkward to unusable on slow connections.

Galleries in other software packages allow you to skip from one image to the next but with Nabble's you have to return to the thumbnail page each time to move to another image. I have some code in place, that Nabble provided, and I was testing to overcome this problem, but I didn't feel it was developed sufficiently to be be incorporated into Nabble's standard code and somehow it dropped of both my and Nabble's agenda.

I will also mention the cookie screen issue.
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