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jfrancis
01-30-2002, 05:05 AM
Your Mazingo content is still badly formatted. The Vindigo review isn't wrapping to the screen correctly on my Jornada 548 when viewed with Mazingo.

Can't you just sort this out please.

I know it's really Microsoft's fault for designing such an appalling handheld browser, but if you're advertising the channel on Mazingo, the least it could do is actually WORK!

Thanks.
jfrancis
02-07-2002, 04:58 AM
Is the Mazingo channel ever going to get sorted out properly. I assume that the same problems occur in the 'online' PocketPC version of the site.

I sat down to read the Casio Stowaway review last night in Mazingo, and find that again it doesn't wrap the text properly to the Pocket PCs screen. Making it too much of a pain to read, horizontally scrolling to read every line.

Am I the only one who is using the site like this? There's little point in having the feature if it never works properly. It's just a waste of time and space having it as a Mazingo channel!
Jared Miniman
02-08-2002, 08:48 AM
Yup--this weekend we're putting up a totally new channel. It will be "light" because our images are heavy (lol), but it will be a fast download and should be a great way to see what's new on pocketnow.
jfrancis
02-08-2002, 09:36 AM
Great. I love the content, the articles are excellent. But I must admit I'd rather read them 'offline' on my Pocket PC than sitting at my monitor in the office ;-)
Jared Miniman
02-08-2002, 12:23 PM
jfrancis,

Would you be interested in "beta testing" the channel? Who better to give feedback then someone who would regularly use it?
jfrancis
02-08-2002, 12:34 PM
OK. I'll give it a go if you like.
jfrancis
05-07-2002, 06:12 AM
I settled down to read the Toshiba e310 review via the Mazingo channel over the weekend. Got to the end of the first page ... "Continue On: General Discussion . . ." ... was not a link, but plain text. So I only managed to read the first page of the review.

Irritated, I set about trying to read some of the other PocketNow content.

The 'StorageTools 1.1: Lights...!' article requires horizontal scrolling to read every single line of text. As does the 'It's all in the presentation... part 4'. Dire!

It does make me wonder, if you guys can't be bothered to format your content correctly for an 'official' Mazingo channel. What hope do we have of convincing others that it's worth while attempting to provide a reasonable handheld web experience?

JF
Derek Snyder
05-07-2002, 12:28 PM
Hi JF-
Thank you for raising these concerns. I am organizing part of our staff to look into this problem. It should be fixed within the week.
jfrancis
05-07-2002, 12:40 PM
Thanks Derek. I'm surprised no one else moans about this. I really enjoy taking stuff offline with my Pocket PC and it gets very irritating when this sort of thing happens.

John
jfrancis
05-15-2002, 07:26 AM
Originally posted by Derek Snyder
Hi JF-
Thank you for raising these concerns. I am organizing part of our staff to look into this problem. It should be fixed within the week.

Derek, is there any movement at all on this stuff. It's still broken as far as I can see

http://www.pocketnow.com/cgi-bin/directory/content.cgi?mazingo=1&mobile=1&db=reviews&id=249
Derek Snyder
05-16-2002, 01:50 AM
Hi John-
As near as I can tell, we just need to sit down and rescript it. I will make it a priority now with the team. Sorry for taking so long with this.
jfrancis
05-16-2002, 05:28 AM
Thanks Derek. As I said, I'm surprised that nobody else has complained about this, or am I the only one using the 'lite' site?
Jared Miniman
05-16-2002, 10:06 AM
About 1500 other folk are.
jfrancis
05-16-2002, 10:13 AM
Originally posted by jfrancis
Thanks Derek. As I said, I'm surprised that nobody else has complained about this, or am I the only one using the 'lite' site?

Don't they want to read complete articles? Or are they just happy reading page 1 of 4 for example?

John
jfrancis
10-11-2002, 06:02 AM
The Pocket PC sized content is screwed up again - I've tried to read three features over the past couple of days on my Pocket PC only to find that the mobile version of the pages extends off the RHS of the screen, requiring horizontal scrolling to read every line.

The MeetingMute review, the Monopoly review, and the Streamliner review are all but unusable on the Pocket PC due to horizontal scrolling being required to read each line of text.

Is there a direct URL to the mobile content I can use with iSilo, at least I'll be able to read the stuff in comfort then.

Thanks,
JF