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From: "Lloyd Marksamer" <longbeachlloyd_at_gmail.com>
Date: Aug 3, 2015 10:48 AM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Ehpes Mobile -- the saga
To: "jerome schatten" <romers_at_shaw.ca>
Cc: "Bruce I. Reisch" <bruce.reisch_at_cornell.edu>
Thanks Jerome. I will try your tech advice. It should work.
Enjoy your vacation/holiday/trip.
See you in September.
Lloyd
On Aug 2, 2015 11:43 PM, "jerome schatten" <romers_at_shaw.ca> wrote:
> Hi Lloyd
>
> I'm gone for the month of August, with little email connectivity. I don't
> have any android devices to test with, but the basic scenario is the same:
>
> Use your laptop to set up plain text the way I instructed you. Send a
> message to bruce using the laptop to see whether it's in plain text. If it
> is, then shut off the laptop and fire up your phone. Use the browser to go
> to gmail.com and sign in from your phone. Most likely you will be in the
> gmail mobile app, which is incapable of sending in plain text.
>
> Here's how you make it work:
> Look in the top left hand corner of the page; you should see an icon of a
> few short horizontal bars. Click on that, then scroll down to the very
> bottom -looking at the left side of the screen. At the very bottom you
> will see a link that says something like Desktop or Desktop version. Click
> on that and it should look pretty much like it did on your laptop.
>
> You should be go to go... Send a message to Bruce and ask him if it's in
> plain text. It should be. All the list messages should be visible just as
> it was on your laptop.
>
> Google figures if you signed in on a mobile device, they will serve up the
> mobile version. There may be ways to defeat that, but I couldn't find any.
>
> You'll get used to it after a while -- that's it till September
>
> J
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Aug 2, 2015, at 4:21 PM, Lloyd Marksamer <longbeachlloyd_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Jerome---I just got a new Android phone and it encourages me to use gmail
> instead of AOL. So tonight I will mosey on over to my HP laptop and try to
> convert it over to Almost Mobile Friendly Plain Text.
> Have a nice day.
> Lloyd
> On Aug 2, 2015 2:02 AM, "jerome schatten" <romers_at_shaw.ca> wrote:
>
>> Czernowitzers...
>>
>> For those using mobile devices, iPhones, iPads, Adroid phones and
>> tablets, you might find the 'Almost Mobile Friendly' version of our website
>> easier to use than the regular version created before there were such
>> things as mobile devices.
>>
>> Mr. Google sent me a snarky note a while back telling me that our website
>> is not 'mobile friendly' -- which means it's harder to use than it might be
>> on small touch screens. So as punishment, they were/are going to going to
>> change our ranking and thus where we are positioned when someone does a
>> Google search on 'czernowitz'. Yikes!
>>
>> What does mobile friendly mean? How to find out? Well, Google has an
>> answer for everything -- they have a test; you type in the webiste address
>> (URL), and hit Enter, and boom, they tell you what's wrong with it and how
>> to fix it. http://czernowitz.ehpes.com failed every section of the
>> test. Rather off-putting.
>>
>> So, I decided to do a quick revamp to see if I could improve my score and
>> boost my diminished self esteem along with our ranking.
>>
>> But what is our ranking? I just had a look... We are second, right after
>> Wikipedia -- not shabby at all, I thought -- what could be better than
>> beating out JewishGen? "Self", I said -- a few hours work and we'll be #1,
>> no?
>>
>> NO... the Almost Mobile Friendly version (AMF) failed every measure, same
>> as the original version. There were no numerical marks, just Pass/Fail, so
>> I couldn't tell if their robots liked it better than the original.
>>
>> Still, at the end of the day, I found the AMF version was indeed easier
>> for me to use with my iPhone than the regular version, Google
>> notwithstanding. Add to that, that JewishGen failed the test also, and I
>> don't feel so bad.
>>
>> I pass the AMF on to you, for whatever it's worth:
>> http://czernowitz.ehpes.com/mobile
>>
>> Best,
>> jerome
>>
>>
>>
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