Touch friendly website

[+CoolFinders]

I tried to access the geocaching.com website from the touch enabled devices (phone, tablet) and noticed that I was not able to navigate through the site. The main issue was that I am not able to select any of the sub menu items in the drop down menu from the main menu bar.

Please consider making the site touch friendly.

 

Thanks!

[+kunarion]

I tried to access the geocaching.com website from the touch enabled devices (phone, tablet) and noticed that I was not able to navigate through the site. The main issue was that I am not able to select any of the sub menu items in the drop down menu from the main menu bar.

Please consider making the site touch friendly.

 

Thanks!

The menu works differently depending on the installed web browser App. I've hand-typed typed some of the more stubborn links, and saved them as bookmarks (to access Pocket Queries, and Trackables).

 

The ideal plan would be design the Geocaching App to replace the web site, so you don't rely on a web browser App. I don't know if that's possible , but it should have the familiar structure of the web site, in touch capable form. I'd suppose it would have buttons for phones and tablets, to bypass the fiddly Java/HTML menus, and hide options that can only function on a PC. I don't know how PC icons like "Send To GPS" would work. Some pages would have to be slightly different than the PC pages. But the lists (PQs, cache & Trackable lists) would remain basically the same.

Edited September 16, 2012 by kunarion

[TScott27]

I tried it out too and got the same "reaction" from the site. If this would be able to adapt to a host of touch devices nowadays, it will surely rock!

[+Team Exxodos]

Hi,

 

that would be much appreciated by us, too ;-)

But as already mentioned, the usability of the gs.com depends on the installed browser. We experienced the most problems with pre-installed Android browser, with Opera it is sometimes possible to access the drop-down items.

 

Regards,

M / Team Exxodos

[+Beach_hut]

+1 from me, typing this on my iPad!

[+Harry Dolphin]

We ran into the same problems using an IPad on our vacation. Could not get into "Find Trackables". Also could not click on a cache on the map to open it. A bit frustrating, but there are major differences in software. I'm happy we could log all our finds using IPad and Wifi.

[+CoolFinders]

Could you simply add list of links from dropdown to each landing page from the main menu click? You already have something similar implemented for "Your Profile" menu.

When you click "Your Profile" menu, you are taken to the "Your Profile" page, but most of the links in the dropdown are listed on top of the page. This simple fix will enable users from any browser to access each page that appears in the dropdown.

 

Thanks!

[+TomToad]

Not sure about other devices, but on the Android browser, you need to press and hold the menu link for a few seconds to get the drop-down menu to appear.

[+ATXTracker]

+1 ipad is hard to use the drop down menus and the maps is almost impossible to use.

[+Arndtwe]

I'd like to see a mobile friendly website, not just touch friendly. Currently browsing on a mobile device only loads the regular website. It's not so bad on an iPad, but on a phone it's very difficult.

[GLK1]

I have a iPad....it would be nice if I could get the icons to open up when I tap on them. Please fix it.