Palm Pre Poetry, EVDO Setting questions and more... From the Forums 13
by Robert Werlinger Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:46 pm EST
Here's some of the latest talk in the forums:
- The Web browser in webOS is good indeed, but there are many sites out there that were designed solely for Mobile Safari. Palm's browser is certainly capable of displaying sites iPhone style, and user Rand points out a handy checkbox in webOS Quick Install (which was recently updated to version 3.0) that tweaks the browser to report itself as Mobile Safari.
- Extolling the virtues of your Pre or Pixi in the form of poetry? Member powerbyte's doing it, and so should you. I've already started work on what's sure to be a hilarious limerick.
- Sure, we have a Facebook app made by Palm in the Catalog, but many find its utility somewhat lacking. Thankfully, Facebook appears to be making enhancements to x.facebook.com (the Facebook mobile site that comes bookmarked), and nyquistJack has discovered some new functionality. The ability to switch to live view, anyone?
- The PreCentral forums are a great place to ask questions (no matter how obscure) and get answers. DrHeathenScum wants to know: just what are the various EVDO Mode settings? Spoiler alert - knowledgeable forum members have the answer.
We look forward to seeing you in the forums! (Not yet a member? Remember: registration is free, and the benefits are numerous.)
13 Comments
Itz sad we have to spoof our browsers when itz built on the same webkit
It's a shame indeed. But something else to consider: spoofing Safari will show all the websites that there are "more" iPhones and "fewer" webOS phones hitting their sites.
So, companies won't feel the need to support a more generic webkit browser and will continue to design their mobile sites specifically for the iPhone.
The website stat people will also look at the numbers and assume that all the webOS phones using that spoof are iPhones. It lowers the perceived footprint of webOS on the Internet (which is a BAD thing).
There are better discussions going around in the forums, lol.
if we change our user agent though, won't that harm the logs reporting webos usage and thus make true compatible sites even less likely? Sounds counter productive to me....
I concur!
I hate not been able to access (have the option) to see the full Facebook page and get stuck with the x.facebook.com
There's a way around that...i can't remember what I did but I think i turned on e-mail notifications when you receive a message in your inbox. I think what I did was bookemarked the page after i opened one of those links since it brings you to the home page (full site).
lite.facebook.com
Pretty much the full site.
The forum thread discussing EVDO modes, was started on Sep 16, 2009. If this is what counts as "recent talk"... well wow.
wow, If I was new and read that, it'd feel like this was an advertisement for the site as much as a news update. Pretty nice topics and comments.
WebOS Quick Install is Version 3.01.
I really do not understand why Precentral would want to promote a way to spoof the browser to show up as an iPhone?... I specifically would never use that patch cause I would never want to "disguise" my Pre...
We need as many people to show the usage of the webOS out thtere so things will eventually change... not to stay with the normal "I'll only support iPhone" mentality....
That being said... I wonder why you guys tweeted me this earlier?....
Great Rant here... http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2010/02/the_iphone_obse.html
Dumbed down explanation of why you can use the iPhone user agent spoof:
When websites do browser sniffing, they do a quick search for a keyword(s) that appears in the user agent. So essentially the user agent spoof adds iPhone/Mobile Safari to the Pre's user agent. However, for actual site usage logs, the site will count it as a Pre.
That is why all user agents begin with Mozilla to be compatible with sites that sniff for Netscape Navigator. However, as you may notice, usage logs don't just display 100% Netscape, they show Firefox, Chrome, Safari, IE, etc.