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Tag Archives: mobile site review
Added to the Wap Review Mobile Directory: PandoDaily's Responsive Site
New Site Added to the Wap Review Mobile Directory
Mobile Link: pandodaily.com
Rating:Content 
Usability 
Doctype: HTML
Home Page Weight: 5050 KB (3461 KB compressed)
Category: Tech News
Description:
Founded in January, 2012 by former TechCrunch reporter Sarah Lacy, PandoDaily has quickly grown to be one of the top news sites covering Silicon Valley and the startup scene.
Like virtually every other news site and blog in the world, PandoDaily is built with WordPress. Unlike the majority of WordPress sites, Pando uses a Responsive Web Design inspired custom theme that adapts on the fly to mobile, tablet and PC browsers.
The design, by Sara Cannon generally works well. As the browser viewport gets smaller, PandoDaily's signature "Ticker" timeline of breaking news mini-posts moves from the sidebar to below the main content. At the same time, the five column "Week in Review" footer reformats as a single column to fit smaller screens.
In my testing, PandoDaily looked good and worked well in the Android and iOS browsers, Opera Mini and Mobile, Firefox Mobile and Nokia's S40 Xpress browser, across viewports ranging from 1680px to 128px in width. However, the site's 3MB page weight will not be appreciated by users who pay for data by the KB.
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Slashdot's Mobile Webapp
New Site Added to the Wap Review Mobile Directory
Mobile Link: m.slashdot.org
Rating:Content Usability
Doctype: HTML
Home Page Weight: 333 KB
Category: Tech News
Description:
Slashdot, the venerable (founded 1997) user powered tech and politics news site, which was recently acquired by Dice.com, has a new mobile webapp.
Slashdot stories, as well as polls, questions and book reviews, are submitted by users. Other users can vote stories up and down and leave and rate comments. Randomly selected user moderators label stories and comments as interesting, informative, off-topic, flamebait, etc. Stories are primarily assigned to the front page by Slashdot editors rather algorithmically.
The latest mobile version of Slashdot has Stories, Polls and Firehose tabs but no UI for accessing Slashdot's tags or categories. If you don't like the mobile webapp, there's a link to the desktop version in the mobile page footer.
Slashdot Mobile is optimized for iOS and Android browsers. It also works well in the Firefox and Opera Mobile browser but not in Opera Mini, where only a blank page is displayed. There's a legacy text-only mobile version at slashdot.org/palm/ that works in all browsers.
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The Wrap's Adaptive Mobile Design Works With All Mobile Browsers
New Site Added to the Wap Review Mobile Directory
Mobile Link: mobile.thewrap.com
Rating:Content Usability
Doctype: XHTML-MP
Home Page Weight: 29-288 KB
Category: Movies
Description:
Since its launch in 2009, The Wrap has quickly grown to become one of the most respected and popular sites covering Hollywood and the movie business. The Wrap was founded by author and former New York Times Hollywood correspondent, Sharon Waxman who currently serves as the site's CEO and Editor in Chief
The Wrap's mobile version is an adaptive site that uses different layouts for various classes of devices. Their are at least three versions (images below) ranging with page sizes ranging from 29 KB for the lightest version to 288 KB for the richest.
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New Site Added to the Wap Review Mobile Directory: SFist's Responsive Magazine Style Design
New Site Added to the Wap Review Mobile Directory
Mobile Link: sfist.com
Rating:Content Usability
Doctype: HTML Transitional
Home Page Weight: 4437 KB
Category: City and Campus Guides
Description:
Part of the Gothamist network of city blogs, SFist covers local news, food, art, entertainment and events for San Franciscans.
Like the other Gothamist sites, SFist has a magazine style front page that uses responsive design techniques to adapt on the fly to all screen sizes from mobile (left image) to PC (right image). It's one of the few responsive magazine style designs I've seen and it works well and looks good on the desktop and in the Android browser and Opera Mini. However page loading is a bit sluggish with the Android browser thanks to the 4.3 MB page weight. I'm also not a fan of the 300 x 250 px desktop banner add that dominates the page above the fold on mobile devices.
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