I can browse nearly every board I visit with my phone, but this one. If I follow a link from an email, everything’s fine, but if I try to navigate anywhere but inside a thread, the pages don’t fit my browser window very well, and it eventually crashes the browser. I visit boards with the same version of VB that have ads, and they work just fine, so there’s something about this board’s settings that just beat the crap out of my browser.
What device and o/s are you using?
I have a i-mate jam windows mobile 3.0 pda/phone and the boards work fine.
It’s a Kyocera K10 with the Open Wave browser. I cannot change the browser in the phone. It is not designed to download things like browsers, trust me, I have tried.
This BBS software, called vBulletin, can have its appearance customized with “skins”. I think the problem is that the skin being used for SDMB employs a lot of JavaScript which I have found often doesn’t play well with mobile devices.
If TPTB so desired, there are free VBB skins that are cell-phone friendly with minimal visual design and no JavaScript. They could install such a skin and then enable the option to allow users to choose their desired skin. However, something tells me that if they were agreeable to the ideas of letting users pick their own skins, they’d have already enabled it.
Try using the Google Mobile Internet Proxy. Go to the following url on your device browser:
I get a 502 error when I try to go to the Dope via the proxy.
That might be temporary. I just tried it from my computer and it worked fine.
In case you were curious, here’s what 502 means.
Oh.
I just popped in to see who the poster ‘My Cellphone’ was, and why we are being nasty to them. :eek: