GMAT Club Forum is iPhone/iPod/BlackBerry Friendly!

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GMAT Club Forum is iPhone, iPod Touch, and Blackberry Friendly!

To all the iPhone users - GMAT Club forum is iPhone and Blackberry friendly - we have enabled an optimized browsing experience. Please see the screenshots below.

How to use:
Simply visit https://gmatclub.com/forum on your iPhone/iPod Touch or Blackberry - gmatclub website does the rest. It will recognize your mobile device and serve you the optimized version.

Have comments or suggestions?
As always - all comments and suggestions to improve mobile experience are very welcome!

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Praetorian · Answer

<img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/080402cool_prv.gif" alt=":cool" title="Cool" />

bb · Answer

<img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt=":-D" title="Very Happy" />

walker · Answer

Very cool and great idea!!! +1 :cool

By the way, this strange rolled black line image (attachment?) occupies 3/4 height of screen on my iPhone with OS 3.0

bb · Answer

Walker, can you take a screenshot?

Nothing unusual on my touch - all attachments look good

All of the attachments above are saved as GIF images. Please see this attachment - JPG

billyjeans · Answer

Posting from my windows mobile phone. A few bugs, I can't see attached pictures, few pages won't display correctly. But it is very good, much better than before.

walker · Answer

bb · Answer

Will look into it.

walker · Answer

I've attached other screenshots with incorrect images: strange scale and cutting.

There are a few thoughts:
1) It would be better if I don't need to use scale to work with forum:
 -  <meta name="viewport" content="width=320; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;">
  this code will block "scale" feature in safari. But I don't know how it will work in BlackBerry.
 - Options such as "edit" and "quote" I would make larger or use one button "Action" with details on other screen or pop-up menu or DHTML features.

2) I would delete or show with smaller font unimportant information about images like "screen.gif (43.9 KiB) Viewed 74 times"

Regardless of my suggestions it is a great step ahead!

iPhone 3G OS 3.0

bb · Answer

Why would you want to disable Scaling in Safari? Assuming we can address the bugs that showed up in the 3.0 edition, all content fits into the standard screen size. I don't find a need to scaled up/down - am I missing something?

Fully support - I noticed it too. I think the theme was designed for reading rather than posting, but these buttons are important enough for moderators and active members.

Good Point too!

Thank you for comments and thank you for the screenshots - that smiley face did look scarry.

bb · Answer

Thank you for checking!
If there is a feature on Windows mobile to take screnshots - can you post a few?
(For blackberry I had to look for the soft that worked with my model and took about 1.5 hours for the entire process, so if there is no soft to take screenshots - don't worry about it)

shadow · Answer

any links to "force" the mobile version? on my wm6 phone using opera, the full version of the site always loads instead of the mobile version (other sites automatically load the mobile version though)

bb · Answer

Possibly but will require Dzyubam to look into code (this is a script that recognizes your mobile device and automatically sets the templates). Do you post while in Mobile mode? One easy way I can think of is to register another username - shadowsjc-mobile and set the template in your user profile to "mTheme" and that profile will always be in mobile version. Another option is to change the template when you login with phone - here: ucp.php?i=165 but that will require switching back and forth.

shadow · Answer

i do post from my phone sometimes (my previous post in the thread for example). it's doable, but it takes a bit longer to load each page. also it doesnt help that my phone has an on-screen keyboard, giving me less space to see what im typing.

i think this problem is unique to opera though - it works fine in pocket IE. any way we can tweak it so that it forces opera to recognize the mobile site?

bb · Answer

We will try. Before we go down this path though, can you try to force the mobile (mTheme) theme via user control panel (ucp.php?i=165) to see if it is usable with Opera?

shadow · Answer

when i hit post reply (using mtheme), nothing happens. i have to hit quote so that im able to post

shadow · Answer

mtheme looks to be working ok with opera

shadow · Answer

one minor quirk - i can only click links in opera if i zoom in the screen all the way. it's weird because the default size is big enough for me to be able to easily click the link, but it just won't register any clicks until i zoom in.

dzyubam · Answer

Thanks for all the feedback!

Can you copy and paste here the full name and version of the Opera browser on your phone? It's usually available in the "About" button of the browser. I believe some versions of Opera are recognizing the mobile theme just fine.