Comments on: Xconomy Goes Mobile at m.xconomy.com http://www.xconomy.com/national/2009/08/18/xconomy-goes-mobile-at-mxconomycom/ Business + Technology in the Exponential Economy Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:49:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: David Solomont http://www.xconomy.com/national/2009/08/18/xconomy-goes-mobile-at-mxconomycom/comment-page-1/#comment-75964 David Solomont Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:37:58 +0000 http://www.xconomy.com/?p=37915#comment-75964 Wade: While you are collecting feedback, one additional suggestion for the Xconomy site in general would be a "print" option alongside "email" and "share". While I know you want to promote "green" and save trees, people are going to want to print articles, even if it is a PDF file to pass along. Being able to print an entire article without the frames, etc...would be nice. Thanks! Wade: While you are collecting feedback, one additional suggestion for the Xconomy site in general would be a “print” option alongside “email” and “share”. While I know you want to promote “green” and save trees, people are going to want to print articles, even if it is a PDF file to pass along. Being able to print an entire article without the frames, etc…would be nice. Thanks!

]]> By: Wade Roush http://www.xconomy.com/national/2009/08/18/xconomy-goes-mobile-at-mxconomycom/comment-page-1/#comment-75713 Wade Roush Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:11:59 +0000 http://www.xconomy.com/?p=37915#comment-75713 Thanks, guys. To respond to David's comments: (1) You're correct, showing reader comments isn't yet one of the features of Mofuse's platform. There's a link at the bottom of each mobile story to the comments on that story, but that link takes you back to the full Xconomy website. Now that I think about it, the fact that Mofuse's system grabs content from our RSS feeds, rather than directly from our content management system (WordPress), probably means that it would be impossible to show comments on the mobile site, much less allow people to leave new comments that would then show up in WordPress. So that's probably a feature that's going to have to await the next generation of publishing tools. (2) We definitely plan to add redirect code to our site, so that people who visit www.xconomy.com from a mobile device will be automatically redirected to m.xconomy.com. In fact, this is already working on our development site. It's one of several upgrades to the site that we plan to roll out as a bundle soon. Thanks, guys. To respond to David’s comments:

(1) You’re correct, showing reader comments isn’t yet one of the features of Mofuse’s platform. There’s a link at the bottom of each mobile story to the comments on that story, but that link takes you back to the full Xconomy website. Now that I think about it, the fact that Mofuse’s system grabs content from our RSS feeds, rather than directly from our content management system (WordPress), probably means that it would be impossible to show comments on the mobile site, much less allow people to leave new comments that would then show up in WordPress. So that’s probably a feature that’s going to have to await the next generation of publishing tools.

(2) We definitely plan to add redirect code to our site, so that people who visit http://www.xconomy.com from a mobile device will be automatically redirected to m.xconomy.com. In fact, this is already working on our development site. It’s one of several upgrades to the site that we plan to roll out as a bundle soon.

]]> By: David Solomont http://www.xconomy.com/national/2009/08/18/xconomy-goes-mobile-at-mxconomycom/comment-page-1/#comment-75701 David Solomont Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:23:58 +0000 http://www.xconomy.com/?p=37915#comment-75701 A "well-behaved" mobile site is a step in the right direction and much appreciated. Two comments: (1) "Reader Comments" have not been "mobile enabled":) (2) The site should automatically detect the browser and redirect the site visitor to http://m.xconomy.com automatically, if appropriate. Thanks for the continued great reporting and improvements to Xconomy.com. A “well-behaved” mobile site is a step in the right direction and much appreciated. Two comments: (1) “Reader Comments” have not been “mobile enabled”:) (2) The site should automatically detect the browser and redirect the site visitor to http://m.xconomy.com automatically, if appropriate. Thanks for the continued great reporting and improvements to Xconomy.com.

]]> By: Jeff Janer http://www.xconomy.com/national/2009/08/18/xconomy-goes-mobile-at-mxconomycom/comment-page-1/#comment-75650 Jeff Janer Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:31:01 +0000 http://www.xconomy.com/?p=37915#comment-75650 Congrats Xconomy; mobile site is clean and quite responsive Congrats Xconomy; mobile site is clean and quite responsive

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