Hi guys .... until yesterday, when I was on Pitmaster on my iPad it was bringing up the desktop website. I have my Safari setting to "request desktop website" and it works great. Suddenly, starting yesterday, I am only getting the mobile website on my iPad. I much prefer the desktop website. Is there something changed in the settings so that my iPad is forced to mobile?
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What ipadOS version are you on?Originally posted by ecowper View Post
this is what I see In iPadOS 14:
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rickgregory I’m on 14.1. And yesterday I was also. That view is the mobile website. Yesterday I saw the desktop website. Today I’m getting the mobile.Comment
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rickgregory You can see the difference in your screenshot. The top nav bar does not show the tabs. The 3 bars in the upper left red area has to be clicked to see a drop down that includes tabs like Recent Posts, or Recipes, etc.Comment
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Yeah that seems to be driven by the width of the browser window - at about 1200 pixels, it changes and most iPads are less than that across. Ray could alter it/refine it to account for things but having the menu wrap is meh too. There are other solutions to that though. But I don't know how easy or hard the forum software makes it to alter the CSS.
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raywjohnson - if you want examples of alternate nav solutions https://responsivenavigation.net is great. The grid solution might work well here.Comment
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I just now posted this same problem I was having on my iPad, at another post. I also have the latest firmware from Apple installed. Before all the recent changes I had menu tabs at the top for easy access. Now I have to click the menu icon y’all are talking about, for the drop down box to appear.Attached FilesComment
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Meathead just responded to my previous post. They will be deleting the menu drop down box and putting the most important links on the navigation bar. It’s still a work in progress.Attached FilesLast edited by Panhead John; November 8, 2020, 03:13 PM.Comment
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We are putting all the important buttons on the tab bar. If your screen is too narrow for all the tabs to show, the dropdown menu replaces it.Comment
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I was getting the tabs at the navigation bar before the changes, on my iPad. When this is all over, should I still get the tabs at the top? Instead of the menu box? -
Well, you're doing that at around 1200px which means that you're doing it on iPads etc. There are other options for tablets etc (see above link) which may or may not be hard to implement.
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This is what you see even on a desktop browser as you narrow the screen. the conversion from a full menu to the hamburger one is at about 1100px, not 1200. There are other approaches to this for those widths that are not quite wide enough for all the tabs but which are too wide for a mobile menu to make sense. Off to the store but I'll code some examples later.
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Meathead - this might be what you're talking about but here's an approach that maintains the menu to a much narrower width. Also, I'd think about removing Messages altogether since it's also right there at the top:
raywjohnson Let me know if you'd like the CSS that does this. Also, I had to disable Javascript to do this. You'd need to change the breakpoint where the mobile menu appears if you used the CSS I created.
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Meathead raywjohnson FWIW I would prefer that an iPad would have a menu bar of tabs across the top to the hamburger menu that is mobile like. For what the input is worth.Comment
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I think you guys have discovered my secret plan to piss off so many people they will all quit and the company will go broke.
Seriously. Can you cut me some slack. This is a work in progress by a small team.Comment
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Same. We're trying to help. If you'd rather not have more feedback, that's fine. We can wait. -
Meathead All these comments were nice and friendly, no animosity at all. You did ask for detailed help and we’re trying to give it. No need to get pissed at us. How about answering this way....Ok, I’ve seen all your comments and suggestions, and we are aware of this. Please give us a few days and we should have this all straightened out. Or whatever. If you’ll just come out and say this will take x amount of time, we’re fine with that.
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Change is hard! But after a few months we have the new norm and nobody remembers the misty water colored memories.Comment
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First - I understand this is a work in progress, and not bashing it. Just want to put another data point out there.
I am on an iPad Pro 12.9", which has a 2732 x 2048 resolution screen. So it is WAY above 1200 pixels wide in either orientation, but as of today anyway, in portrait mode (my normal browsing view), it now shows the hamburger menu, and not the horizontal menu. It only shows "normal" when I rotate to landscape orientation.
As a comparison, I am typing this on a Windows 10 laptop with a 1920x1080 screen, and get the normal horizontal menus when the browser window is full screen. If I narrow the window gradually, somewhere around 2/3 of the screen width it switches to the same hamburger menu as the iPad in portrait mode.
So this is not a mobile thing at all - its just the vBulletin template/theme/whatever making the decision to switch the menu when it gets down to a certain window width. Also probably dependant on screen scaling settings on your computer or tablet. It's not a big deal, and for right now, my fix at least is to use my iPad in landscape mode if the menu change bothers me.Comment
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Folks, I am humping. Trying to get the work done. Please stop making me respond to complaints about a work in progress. Please relax and wait a day or two. When I am done I will ask for feedback.Comment
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