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Rikki 
New Mobile skin
When we developed IP.Board 3.0, we took the decision to keep the same basic Lo-Fi skin that appeared in IP.Board 2.x, but expand it to include the ability to post, which was a commonly requested feature. Since 3.0's release, we've had a lot of feedback requesting that we expand the Lo-Fi skin further, and create a truly mobile experience for IP.Board users. Now we're pleased to introduce the new Mobile skin.
The new Mobile skin provides handy trimmed-down access to almost all areas of IP.Board, including topics, posting, searching and the messenger. Non-essential information and features have been stripped out, to ensure the interface for mobile device users is uncluttered as well as quick to download and render.
The CSS used to build the Mobile skin is minimal, to help keep page sizes down, but we have added a splash a color to enable webmasters to brand their Mobile skin, if they wish. By default, the Mobile skin is traditional IP.Board blue. A GDK for the few images that appear will be released in due course.
We've designed the Mobile skin to be usable on any modern mobile device, such as iPhone and Blackberry. It should look great on any size screen, too.
We'd love to hear your feedback on the new look, and any questions you have! The skin will be available for testing on this forum in the next few days.
Oh, one more thing... it has topic markers
When we developed IP.Board 3.0, we took the decision to keep the same basic Lo-Fi skin that appeared in IP.Board 2.x, but expand it to include the ability to post, which was a commonly requested feature. Since 3.0's release, we've had a lot of feedback requesting that we expand the Lo-Fi skin further, and create a truly mobile experience for IP.Board users. Now we're pleased to introduce the new Mobile skin.
The new Mobile skin provides handy trimmed-down access to almost all areas of IP.Board, including topics, posting, searching and the messenger. Non-essential information and features have been stripped out, to ensure the interface for mobile device users is uncluttered as well as quick to download and render.
The CSS used to build the Mobile skin is minimal, to help keep page sizes down, but we have added a splash a color to enable webmasters to brand their Mobile skin, if they wish. By default, the Mobile skin is traditional IP.Board blue. A GDK for the few images that appear will be released in due course.
We've designed the Mobile skin to be usable on any modern mobile device, such as iPhone and Blackberry. It should look great on any size screen, too.
We'd love to hear your feedback on the new look, and any questions you have! The skin will be available for testing on this forum in the next few days.
Oh, one more thing... it has topic markers
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TWF
19 October 2009 - 05:32 PM
Very nice.
Any screenshots of what it'll look like on various platforms, ie, iPhone, Android, the Palm Pre, Windows Mobile, Symbian, etc?
Any screenshots of what it'll look like on various platforms, ie, iPhone, Android, the Palm Pre, Windows Mobile, Symbian, etc?
Rikki
19 October 2009 - 05:34 PM
It'll look the same on all of them. It's the same skin for all of them
TWF
19 October 2009 - 05:37 PM
Not entirely. Windows Mobile 5's version of IE, for example, can't do anything right except Google. 
Rikki
19 October 2009 - 05:39 PM
Well, this is designed for more modern smartphones. We can't promise it'll support everything.
JustEmailMe
19 October 2009 - 05:41 PM
I have been very vocal of my wish to have a new lofi skin for mobiles. I am ecstatic about this. Thanks for listening to us and developing this new skin.
Yea for topic markers!
Yea for topic markers!
Dannyarr
19 October 2009 - 05:59 PM
Looks awesome. Any chance of porting this as the Lo-Fi skin usable in browsers too? It looks a lot better than the current one.
~sullengirl~
19 October 2009 - 06:02 PM
You will have one very, very happy costumer here! I love you guys more and more
Dan C
19 October 2009 - 06:11 PM
The skin looks great, Rikki.. My only concern would be that the pagination looks harder to use on a mobile than the actual pagination is. The click area is too small, you want it to be as big as possible for the touch screen devices, really.
Helmi
19 October 2009 - 06:20 PM
can't wait to see this in action. The current lo-fi theme doesn't really look good - this one looks awesome!
.Ian
19 October 2009 - 06:28 PM
I use a regular skin on Android
Question is will this be out before cleancut, which was due with 3.0.3
Question is will this be out before cleancut, which was due with 3.0.3
Nervosa
19 October 2009 - 06:52 PM
Can we see some screen shots of how this will look in gallery, blog, content?
Rikki
19 October 2009 - 07:13 PM
Regarding pagination, I agree. I want to give that more attention (as you can see it's unstyled right now). There's definitely some tweaks left to make.
RobertMidd
19 October 2009 - 07:30 PM
Nice job Rikki !!!
I presume the skin will work with all the IP applications?
I presume the skin will work with all the IP applications?
DarkGizmo
19 October 2009 - 08:01 PM
Awesome! when will this be available? and will it be auto-detected if you're browsing via a mobile device say an iPhone?
Joriz
19 October 2009 - 08:30 PM
Great!
Hope the CSS files are simple that I just have to change some colors to make it better fit with our normal website skin.
Hope the CSS files are simple that I just have to change some colors to make it better fit with our normal website skin.
Rikki
19 October 2009 - 08:50 PM
RobertMidd: It will work with IP.Board and Blog. I am undecided as to whether I'm going to attempt Gallery; when the sizes of the images can't be controlled in the skin, I have a feeling it's going to futile to try and make it mobile. We will see though.
mediabrat
19 October 2009 - 09:08 PM
Me likey. A lot. Eagerly awaiting its release.
@DarkGizmo: IPB3 already has user agent mapping to various skins, so as long as that's working properly, it'll detect the iPhone, etc., and redirect as necessary. I don't know how many phones the user agent mapping currently knows about, but you do have the option of adding more via the ACP.
@DarkGizmo: IPB3 already has user agent mapping to various skins, so as long as that's working properly, it'll detect the iPhone, etc., and redirect as necessary. I don't know how many phones the user agent mapping currently knows about, but you do have the option of adding more via the ACP.
