Comments on: GrokDotCom Is First To Be Optimized for iPhone

By: vitamin cafe

vitamin cafe — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:40:31 +0000

nice indeed!!! this is what I’ve been looking for…thanks a lot for sharing..

By: iPhone

iPhone — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:36:35 +0000

wow..just checked ur blog and man I am very impressed..feeling like working on mine rightaway

By: Lars

Lars — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 13:48:03 +0000

I tested it in mobile versions of Internet Explorer and Opera (though not Mini, I tested it in the full non-Java version).

Then I tested it in a Symbian browser as well to no luck.

By: Robert Gorell

Robert Gorell — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 21:23:09 +0000

Lars, You bring up a very good point. The mobile web is too often overlooked. We're on BlackBerry over here and haven't heard of any problems on Windows or Palm-based readers, so we appreciate it. Although we're not broadly optimized for mobile, the site looks pretty decent in the BlackBerry browser as well as Opera Mini. Most phones still can't access the web, but that's changing. Obviously, smart phones are everywhere now--especially among influencers and digerati like our readers.

By: Lars

Lars — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:25:20 +0000

I think that optimizing a website for iPhone is like optimizing a website only for Firefox. I just tested it on Windows Mobile 5.0 and Symbian OS 9.1/UIQ 3. They both started loading the website but then crashed. Actually, Apple can only dream of getting the market share that Firefox has for web browsers. So instead of optimizing for iPhone specifically, I’d suggest you optimize for mobile Internet.

By: Bazaarblog Ready for Your iPhone | Bazaarblog

Bazaarblog Ready for Your iPhone | Bazaarblog — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:53:56 +0000

[...] Thanks to our blogging experts at ContentRobot, and their beta access to the iPhone Wordpress plugin, the Bazaarblog is now optimized for iPhone! We are one of two blogs we know of that are optimized for iPhone, including GrokDotCom. [...]

By: Brandon

Brandon — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:45:51 +0000

I was on edge before, and now I’m at home on my wifi. It seems 100% better now, but I can’t imagine that my Donne tips could slow down my phone’s response to my typing.

By: Robert Gorell

Robert Gorell — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 19:15:01 +0000

Brandon, don't know if this helps, but I found this post in Grok's Breaking Buzz section about the iPhone's Java setup. Seems like it's fast for the other folks here. Are you viewing it on Edge or WiFi?

By: alex harris

alex harris — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:34:33 +0000

Yup, dugg it from the iphone. Majority of the time I read and surf news and feeds from my phone, love the set up here.

By: Lars

Lars — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 17:05:59 +0000

I don’t understand all the fuss about iPhone. Why are businesses waking up now? A large share of cell phones have been phone/PDAs in Europe for quite some time. I’ve used mobile Internet (not talking about WAP here) for years.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 16:18:11 +0000

I’m on my iPhone now and it looks very nice, but it seems to really lag my typing. I wonder if there is some intensive JavaScript slowing me down?

By: Robert Gorell

Robert Gorell — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 16:14:35 +0000

Nice! Alex, did you Digg it from your iPhone as well?

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 16:02:12 +0000

I think the site looks pretty good. Load speeds are good on the edge network. Nice to see your ahead of the game.

By: alex harris

alex harris — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 16:01:22 +0000

Wow, that is sweet. I just checked it out. The pages fit nicely in the iphone browser. Normally you would need to zoom to read the text, now its perfect either vertical or horizontal format. Nice touch, you even have a different header just for iphone peeps. Maybe blogger will release something like this.