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I think it would be better (from a delivery, maintenance and usability point of view) to have a truly responsive website. CP's current rendering on mobile is pretty terrible. 
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The cat is out. 
I am not the one who knocks. I never knock.
In fact, I hate knocking.
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: CP's current rendering on mobile is pretty terrible
What's your top 3 list of things which suck?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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The home page is readable on mobile. But if you click "More articles", you're taken to the Latest Updates page which appears to be the standard web page scaled to fit the mobile screen by narrowing the widths of columns. Ideally, the mobile version of this page should have a different layout, allowing for wider article titles placed below the article group header (e.g. "ASP.NET").
The forums are also difficult to read on a phone.
In general, I think these and other issues would be fixed by a mobile-specific redesign served up by m.codeproject.com, rather than tweaking the existing site to suit multiple screen resolutions. As an example, compare m.quora.com with www.quora.com. The mobile site is very easy to consume.
Thanks,
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Quora's forums are the non-threaded style, right? That's definitely easier to do because you have no indent issues. I'll noodle on that.
The "more articles" page. Yes.
Do you want to be a beta tester? I have a homepage thing that may interest you...
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Quora's forums are the non-threaded style, right?
Ah, yes. I forgot about that. I agree rendering threaded fora is a non-trivial task.
Would be happy to beta test. Thanks!
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I have been working, off and on, on a mobile app for CP based off the API for a little while now. It's using the same core codebase that I used in a couple of articles, but extended to cover the rest of the API. The idea is that there's going to be a couple of articles around this as well. Unfortunately, the API isn't stable enough right now for me to want to stake what little reputation I have on pushing out something against an API that may, or may not be, running at any given point.
This space for rent
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Cool, may I see that? I'd really like to.
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It's still, very much, a work in progress. It's based on the code I started here[^].
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To enhance my knowledge about systems and their abbreviations: could anyone tell me what CP is?
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CP -> Code Project.
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Thank you. The thread creator was thinking of it in the subway, so I thought it must be related to the subway 
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Going ever further away from the orignal subject: If you enjoy what people think up at the subway, you should listen to Tom Lehrer - The Subway Song - YouTube[^]
(You are probably too young to remember Tom Lehrer  . In the 1960s he was a comedian, singing hillarious, and often very political songs, sometimes grotesque, but alwas funny. And his spoken introductions doubled the value of the songs. If you like this kind of humour, search for Tom Lehrer on YouTube.)
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D4rkTrick wrote: The thread creator
That's me. 
I am not the one who knocks. I never knock.
In fact, I hate knocking.
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... but for the first time they showed an ad at the top of the page that I might be interested in. Boxer shorts. You can't have enough of those. But how did the server know that? I never did any such search.
I am endeavoring, ma'am, to construct a mnemonic memory circuit using stone knives and bearskins.
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Predictive advertising: they know what you will be searching for soon.
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Then why do I have to wait for my Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator?
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Because they haven't written the ad yet: the marketing department are only on their third martini, and are waiting for the barbeque to heat up ready to cook the unicorn burgers first.
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unicorned beef?
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Was the horn not the part they were after? And what did they sell as unicorn horns? A whale's tooth.[^]
I think they also had unicorn burgers in the Dilbert cartoons.
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Um ... that was a link to unicorn burgers in the Dilbert cartoons ... 
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No, the video cartoons. You know, at least 24 frames per second. In color. With sound.
I am endeavoring, ma'am, to construct a mnemonic memory circuit using stone knives and bearskins.
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OH! You mean the moving pictures? With all the latest actor chappies, like Buster Keaton, and Oliver Hardy in!
We don't get many of those here, you know - the celluloid doesn't travel well.
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Even scarier, I never see an ad for underwear.
How does the server know that? 
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