Man, Videosift is so not iphone friendly
I suspect I know why: I suspect it takes special software to detect iphones and do different things with them, but I spent the day surfing, and videosift is the only spot where I am frustrated. I can't see videos (they work well at youtube), if I open comments, it only shows me some with no link to go to the rest no matter how I move about, and I tried to post a comment, got to the end of the laborious tapping and then was told "malformed comment submission".
If any of you experienced iphone users can tell me things I don't know that will make it better, I would really like that. I spend a lot of time over the day sifting, and I was looking forward to being able to do it with freedom. As it is, I don't even seem to be able to use videosift to get to youtube, where I can really watch the video.
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dagComment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)
I thought there wasn't a Flash player that works on the build in Safari yet. And that's why videos don't work. Though that was a few months ago, so I could be wrong.
I know YouTube vids work through that application they built specifically for YouTube, but didn't think they worked either through the browser.
oxdottirI understand about the flash. Makes me wonder if when the dev kit comes out, it will be possible to make a videosift app easily.
But, the comments. Why can't I submit comments with my iphone? Every time I try it just says my comment is malformatted. I can't even see all the comments. I mean, I am now resigned: I can't watch videos on videosift on my iphone, but it seems odd that I can't enter text, when I can enter text in every other webforum I've tried. Of course, I'll live without it working. But I like it here, and I like to check in on how my submissions/blogs are doing in the middle of some boring meeting at work...
lucky760Rather difficult to guess without tinkering with the phone myself to investigate, but my best uninformed guess would be that it has to do with the Ajax functionality of the site. I wonder if there's a way to turn off JavaScript in Safari on the iPhone. If so, maybe it would work that way?
Sorry, oxdottir. It's unfortunately impossible to debug the site on different browsers to which we don't have access.
oxdottirI don't mean to be unreasonable, and I admit to tons of ignorance ("Ajax functionality" is a mystery to me). My largest hope when I first posted this was that someone like joedirt would have said, "oh, hey, you mean you didn't readjust the frobnatz setting?" and that would have made it so I could post comments. Having understood the flash issue, I'm not even thinking of that.
If you live in the SF bay area, I could loan you my phone, but that's mostly said tongue in cheek, and I don't really expect much iphone-based development until February when the dev kit comes out, and then I expect all sorts of things to happen--maybe not at videosift, but in general.
mlxOK, I have an HTC smartphone...where's that frobnatz thingy?
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