it's your call..opinions needed regarding VC 2.0 smartphone layout (thats layout for devices smaller than tablets):
The dilemma: Smartphones use different types of "manouvering" the screen and different short cuts. Basically every type of click, tap, double click, drag is already taken by one or another mobile smartphone and there is no standard! That means: Our zoom-function on an image either interferes with "scroll down" or with "save as" or with "send to printer" or something else...everything you can imagine seems to be taken depending on the type of device you are using.
That means: No matter what we code, instead of our zoom your smart phone asks to save the pic instead of opening it, or if you try to save it, it opens the zoom or it scrolls down or whatever...crazy shit of today "non standardized human machine interaction".
The only solution which comes to my mind right now: Add button for mobile users. But hey: Our mission was to have less space for controls on mobiles and more space for the "net-content", which is the image.
That would mean: Hide all freaking buttons on mobiles unless somebody wants to see and use them. Now my question to the posters here: How much of the information below each post would you OK to hide on small devices? The link to your blog? The PM? The tags? Maybe even your story? The link to your comment page? Hide means: The standard mobile would not show these until "show buttons or whatever" would be clicked on a post. of course we can reduce it to a plain photo show..which would be the extreme..but hey: As far as I know our "lazy" users, only one out of 100 would realistically open the accompanying information,,and that can lead to frustration of the posters.
On the other hand: Thinking about the old version we had: Mobile users were not able to read or click any of the small printed meta information beneath the posts unless they used two fingers to zoom on that line, read it, and then zoom back to move on to the next...please consider this too!
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