Adding another voice to the "folks who use mobile browsing", LJ has had this nasty habit lately of setting cookies with javascript (I think), which means that anybody on a Windows Mobile 6.0-and-earlier browser can't stay logged in. Even after you log in, your flist shows up as if you hadn't, and you can't see "warning warning adult warning!" stuff, because you can't get LJ to accept it when you say "Yes, I'm over 18".
This is one of those bugs that comes and goes -- it'll be fixed for a few weeks, then it'll go right back to being broken again. IJ seems to have stuck with a version of LJ's code that doesn't have this problem, which is really nice, but LJ is such a crapshoot on a mobile browser that I can't be bothered to check it -- which is a real problem when I'm traveling. Every time I try submitting a ticket on LJ for this problem, I see several other tickets asking for help with the same thing, and we get a variety of responses -- someone will usually have support really listening and trying to compile data, someone else will get told "try logging in and out" (and then the support person happily closes the ticket), someone else will get told "install a new browser", and so on and so on. This drives me *batty* -- if it's the same problem (and if people are starting to link to each other's tickets -- "Hey, ticket #12345, #12356, #12367, and #12378 are all this same problem"), it'd be nice to have a unified answer to it rather than having so many different people giving so many different answers. (But that's a side issue!) I know DW has said it's going to be focusing really hard on accessibility, and anything that makes a site work for a non-graphical browser, I can usually ride right in on its coattails. I'm mainly just piping up to get this on your radar -- in this day and age of iPhones, lots of people take advantage of mobile browsing, but not all of us are on something as shiny as the iPhone itself. >_> --Helens On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Chris Maier <[email protected]> wrote: > oooh. Good question! I have a related question--is the stripped-down > mobile version of LJ (www.livejournal.com/mobile) going to be available on > Dreamwidth? I use that a lot, on my stupid Q with the funky browser. I > see from the Wiki that the long term plan is to make something much shinier > than LJ/mobile, which is awesome--I just wondered if the current text-based > version would be around to start with? _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
