Non-responsive 2.1 theme?

[Sir Osis of Liver]

I've had an odd request, some members of a large forum we upgraded last night are asking for a "non-mobile" version of Curve2.  AFAIK all 2.1 themes are responsive.  Is there any practical way to make Curve2 or any other 2.1 theme non-responsive?  It would be installed as a second theme for users who want it.

[All Colours Sam]

Clone your theme and leave the responsive.css file empty on the new one, some responsiveness is handling via js (new smc_PopupMenu()) depending on how hardcore your users want their non-responsive theme you will also need to make changes to it to avoid replacing the menus.


This is, of course, if the definition of "non-mobile" moves towards the actual mechanism to display info in reduced screens and not just a cosmetic look.

[Sir Osis of Liver]

Already tried removing responsive.css, didn't go well.

If you look at 2.0 Curve on mobile what you see is a small version of the desktop theme, it's exactly the same and can be zoomed up.  I believe that's what they want.  Waiting for more info from forum admin.

[All Colours Sam]

In what sense it didn't go well?

What is what you actually want to achieve? do you want to go to a forum in a phone and see both vertical and horizontal scroll bars?

[Sir Osis of Liver]

If you look at 2.0 Curve on mobile what you see is a small version of the desktop theme, it's exactly the same and can be zoomed up.  I believe that's what they want.  Waiting for more info from forum admin.

[shawnb61]

Sounds familiar...

I had some guys who strongly preferred "pinch & zoom" over responsive.  More options all visible at once, e.g., the search bar at the top usually goes away in responsive.  Also, not having to navigate a menu to get to the Reply button.  That stuff drove them nuts, they kept saying they couldn't even reply or search anymore.

They wanted pinch & zoom back...

I basically told them to learn how to turn on desktop mode on their browser. 

That was too complicated, apparently, but they figured out that if they rotate their phones to landscape they got most of it back & (over time...) stopped complaining.

(Of course, these guys wanted core back, too...)

I do think a big part of it would be addressed if Search was kept in the top menu bar (instead of language) and if Reply was kept visible (instead of Quote or Quick Edit)...   I do agree with them that having Reply & Search directly accessible would be a good thing. 

[Diego Andrés]

Remove

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<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
From the index.template.php

[Sir Osis of Liver]

Yeah, Diego, that works fine, just like 2.0 Curve.

Now, they're also complaining about ads at top of forum being too large and stacked vertically in phone view.  Using ad management mod.  You can see that here.  When I take out the meta viewport, they're arranged nicely same as on desktop here.  Is it possible to do the same thing just to the ads, so the rest of the forum is responsive as normal?

[Diego Andrés]

If those are google ads I think in the panel you have the options to explicitly define if they are responsive/mobile or how they should behave.
Perhaps a different type of ad block would work for you, I am not entirely sure.

[Sir Osis of Liver]

The ads are formatted as html tables embedded in top of footerfix div.  They're not Google ads.  Trying to set table width 100%, but the three largest ads are still stacked in phone view.