Is there a plan for a CP mobile app?
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Chris Maunder wrote:
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That reminds me of this: Know Your Meme[^] :laugh: All kidding aside, a lot of the folks that visit this site are well aware of the dangers that lurk around every corner in the web. The simplest and most cost-effective way to prevent malware from infecting a computer is to block all the ads which is basically blocking google and yahoo ad services. In addition, by running script blockers we can protect against accidents. The way to provide an avenue for some ad revenue in the age of ad and script blockers is to host static image advertisements on the same domain as the website that can be displayed when the 3rd party ad servers have been blocked. Once your original domain is trusted, the static ads are displayed. Does this increase the amount of time administrating a site? Yes, as now you have to curate ads as well as content. On the question of supporting CP, does visiting the article links in the newsletters count towards advertising?
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We've tried. There's no such ability to automate ad systems unless you control them 100%. We use two systems: ads which we get directly from agencies and companies such as Microsoft, Google and Amazon, and ads we get from 3rd party providers. The 3rd party providers typically sell ads programatically which means anyone can bid for and place an ad. The broker (in our case, Google's AdExchange) polices the ads, but given it's Google they only police so far. We've tried many, many, many ways to sort the wheat from the chaff but because we have clever motivated people trying to outwit our clever motivated people it comes down to manually fighting the good fight. Basically we constantly watch and work hard to keep your viewing experience sane. Bad ads give the entire software community a bad name.
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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. :( /ravi
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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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Hey Guys, Just the other day I was travelling in the subway and had the urge to check out CP, and I wondered how nice it would be if we had a mobile app for CP. Are there any plans in the near future? Thanks.
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To enhance my knowledge about systems and their abbreviations: could anyone tell me what CP is?
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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
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, comparem.quora.comwithwww.quora.com. The mobile site is very easy to consume. Thanks, /raviMy new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
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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, comparem.quora.comwithwww.quora.com. The mobile site is very easy to consume. Thanks, /raviMy new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
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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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
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! /ravi
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Myself I can't really see posting or responding to anything via a pad. Much less a phone. I need a keyboard. And often multiple views for reference.
For the keyboard part: Why not use a keyboard, then? My fingers are much to big for that touchscreen keyboard, so I got myself a medium-sized bluetooth keyboard (roughly 12 by 25 cm, thinner than my smartphone) - it works perfectly. I did not shop around to find the cheapest one, so it cost me something like 35 Euros, brand name: Sandstrøm. But it is a robust one, built on a sturdy aluminum plate, and the keys have a nice touch. I can type almost as fast as on a full-size keyboard. Of course it won't fit in your pocket. But if you, like me, usually carry a bag around, the keyboard slip in nicely, thinner than a book and smaller than a (paper) note pad.
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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 :D
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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Thank you. The thread creator was thinking of it in the subway, so I thought it *must be* related to the subway :D
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For the keyboard part: Why not use a keyboard, then? My fingers are much to big for that touchscreen keyboard, so I got myself a medium-sized bluetooth keyboard (roughly 12 by 25 cm, thinner than my smartphone) - it works perfectly. I did not shop around to find the cheapest one, so it cost me something like 35 Euros, brand name: Sandstrøm. But it is a robust one, built on a sturdy aluminum plate, and the keys have a nice touch. I can type almost as fast as on a full-size keyboard. Of course it won't fit in your pocket. But if you, like me, usually carry a bag around, the keyboard slip in nicely, thinner than a book and smaller than a (paper) note pad.