Posted from a Tablet Tag or Bragging Rights for People with Bad Priorities

[GeneralAntilles]

This is an idea I've jokingly dropped out there a number of times, but honestly believe would be rather cool. I'd like to see some sort of "Posted from a Tablet"-tag for forum posts. Either by providing a checkbox at post creation time or autodetecting by useragent (or maybe both), a use would be able to mark certain posts as originating from a tablet. Perhaps with a little icon or note up by the post number or maybe timestamp.

While not all that useful in and of itself, it would provide an interesting feel for how many of us are posting from our tablets and perhaps a little bragging rights for some. :D

Anyway, I'd like to see if anybody else thinks this might be fun.

[qwerty12]

Certainly. So I can have an excuse for typing bad :p

[GeneralAntilles]

Certainly. So I can have an excuse for typing bad :p

No, typing from a tablet is no excuse! (Take a guess at what the topic was posted from :D)

[qwerty12]

No, typing from a tablet is no excuse! (Take a guess at what the topic was posted from :D)

Aww. I shall endeavor my best to write properly on a tablet. Except for IRC, where you need to be fast :P.

Wow, fair enough. If you can type that from a tablet, I have no excuse :P

[Bundyo]

MicroB identifies as "Tablet browser", so its not very difficuult i guess.

[chrisak]

Guess I always assumed that, like myself, everyone here was carefully pecking away at little onscreen IT keyboards 24/7 <grin> No wonder I've always got a headache!

So you guys are all spending time w/ other computers? I'd be curious how many ppl out there actually signed off the desk/laptop lifestyle to run exclusively with these little nokias.

[Bundyo]

I work with computers all the time, no NIT could save me from that :)

[Benson]

I type posts from the biggest keyboard in arm's reach...
Or scrawl through HWR, if I'm walking around in portrait mode.
...I ain't the kind to stand and brag
No, I'm the kind to stand right up and fight.But hey, why not both? :D

[linux_author]

f u cn rd ths u knw im pstng fm a tblt!

[Cptnodegard]

Guess I always assumed that, like myself, everyone here was carefully pecking away at little onscreen IT keyboards 24/7

I think you might very well be the only one whos not using an igo :p

[Benson]

Nope, onscreen fingerboard here, except in portrait mode...

Edit: Obviously, I meant that I regularly use the onscreen boards, not always; as mentioned before, I'll use a BT board (Palm 3245WW) or my desktop's keyboard when convenient.

[Reggie]

I doubt I can find a vbulletin hack that does that. I'll try to see if I can find one at vbulletin.org.

Just an FYI, here's itT's March 2008 stats on the screen resolution that visitors use. We can see that 16.48% use the tablet (at 800x480 resolution).

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[Benson]

Any data on 480x800? (Obviously not on that chart, but thought you might have numbers for less frequent resolutions...)

[geneven]

You might be able to tell who's using a tablet by doing a statistical analysis of double-letter typos. In my case, there's a clear correlation between shortness of message and whether I'm using a tablet.

I often find when using a tablet that stray words or lys havely beeren put in the midtermdle of my words. Usually I manage to correct them.

[Reggie]

Any data on 480x800? (Obviously not on that chart, but thought you might have numbers for less frequent resolutions...)

Sure, it's about 0.058%.

[Benson]

Cool, xrandr is alive and well; proudly among the 0.35% doing it.

[qwerty12]

I knew that's what you were getting at! :P

[belder]

My N800 e-mail replies always have (Sent from Nokia mobile tablet)under the post so clients will know I'm answering their e-mails without the benefit of being in the office.

[GeneralAntilles]

Does anybody with more familiarity with vBulletin than me know of any good plugins that could be adapted to something like this?

[Benson]

I have 0 familiarity, but a quick google turned up:

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=130983
Which looks vaguely relevant, if useragent is considered a good proxy for hardware. (We could also flag iPhone posts that way, which would be entertaining with some people using an unmodified iPhone UA on their tablets...)

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=102270
Implements mood, which could be used to show what device that person is currently using...

[gemniii42]

Now, are we supposed to differentiate from posting from a Tablet w/ a keyboard, vs one w/o vs. using an iGo, etc.

I like sitting in the airport (like this morning) and browsing and posting with my stowaway.
posted from a desktop.

[Benson]

The easiest implementation would be to permit users to select one of several pre-sigs; these would be inserted before the signature as part of the post. The user could make a list of pre-sigs, and select from his list in a dropdown box on the Go Advanced page.

(Failing a vBulletin implementation, this could, of course, be implemented as a Greasemonkey script.)

[ARJWright]

Nice idea. Could be something in the User Control Panel that can set defautly; but then be used on the advanced post screen if someone needs/will change it because they are posting differently.

Given that graph posted above, I understand why, but still think its kinda weird that more people aren't using their ITs to browse the board. Performance not withstanding, I wonder if it has more to do with just the way the site sits on the IT (not getting into that design convo again, but its somehting I was thinking).

[Benson]

It's because they don't know about Classic theme and CSS, or thought it was too much work to set up.

And also, there's visitors who stumble in from Google.

And people with there tablets in reboot loops, asking for advice on fixing it, though I think that's one of the smaller contributions... ;)