Furmeets UK - Mobile Update
Jun. 9th, 2009 11:48 pmI know this is all I'm writing about recently, but I've been putting a lot of work into the Furmeets UK site. Today, I decided to tackle the problem that the site doesn't display in most mobile phone browsers. The reason for this is because on the pages which use Google Maps, they depend on javascript and often just end up confusing mobile browsers. So I found a very handy script available free at http://detectmobilebrowsers.mobi/ which will detect mobile browsers and redirect on detection. Then the next task was making static maps. This was pretty easy for the event page but was an absolute nightmare for the main page. Turns out static maps don't like co-ordinates with spaces in them so had to strip the spaces out but took me forever to work it out. Also the max size for a static map is 640x640 so had to reduce the size of the map a bit.
So, I've tested it in Windows Mobile Opera Mini 9 and Windows Mobile Internet Explorer and while it looks a bit wonky in IE, it looks fine in Opera in both mobile and normal view. To be honest, I may just remove the UK map altogether from the main page as it's a bit of a large file to download on the move and isn't interactive. Thing is, it took so much hard work to get it working, I'm reluctant to remove it :P
Anyway, if anyone reading would like give it a go and let me know if anything goes wrong, that would be much appreciated as I can't test it with any other phone browsers. Also if there's any suggestions, I'll try to accommodate them.
So, I've tested it in Windows Mobile Opera Mini 9 and Windows Mobile Internet Explorer and while it looks a bit wonky in IE, it looks fine in Opera in both mobile and normal view. To be honest, I may just remove the UK map altogether from the main page as it's a bit of a large file to download on the move and isn't interactive. Thing is, it took so much hard work to get it working, I'm reluctant to remove it :P
Anyway, if anyone reading would like give it a go and let me know if anything goes wrong, that would be much appreciated as I can't test it with any other phone browsers. Also if there's any suggestions, I'll try to accommodate them.