{"id":14744,"date":"2011-08-12T12:41:05","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T20:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wapreview.com\/?p=14744"},"modified":"2011-08-12T12:41:06","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T20:41:06","slug":"blogger-mobile-templates-now-support-opera-mini-symbian-anna-n9-and-blackberry-os-6-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/14744\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogger Mobile Templates Now Support Opera Mini, Symbian Anna, N9 and BlackBerry OS 6.0"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n I covered<\/a> Google Blogger’s Beta mobile page templates in depth when they were rolled out last January<\/span>. \u00a0They work well and look great and go a long way toward making the often\u00a0unruly\u00a0Blogger sites usable with a mobile browser. \u00a0At that time I lamented that the only iPhones and bada and Android devices were detected and served the mobile formatted pages.<\/span><\/p>\n You can\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>force Blogger to use the mobile template by appending ?m=1<\/em> to the end of the URL of any page on any Blogger site. When I tried that with a number of different browsers, the mobile pages seemed to work well with almost any mobile browser that has JavaScript support, including the Symbian^3 browser and Opera Mini. I’ve been hoping that Google would add support for more mobile browsers and it looks like they quietly did so this week.<\/p>\n <\/a>If you visit a Blogger site whose publisher has enabled the mobile templates, such as my\u00a0www.prepaidphonenews.com<\/a> or one of my favorite Nokia news sites,\u00a0www.nokiaknowings.com<\/a>\u00a0with Opera Mini 4.3 or latter or the Symbian Anna browser you should now see the mobile version of the site (images). Based on some testing I did using the FireFox User Agent Switcher<\/a> extension it looks like BlackBerry OS 6 devices (which have a WebKit based browser) and the yet to be released Nokia N9 are also served the mobile pages.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, \u00a0Blogger still doesn’t detect lots of capable mobile browsers including the pre-Anna Symbian^3, WebOS, \u00a0and Opera Mobile browsers, even though all of them handle Blogger sites\u00a0perfectly when the ?m=1<\/em> hack is used.<\/p>\n If you have a Blogger site, do your mobile users a \u00a0favor and turn on the mobile templates. Heres how to enable mobile template support:\u00a0Go to\u00a0Blogger In Draft<\/em>\u00a0at\u00a0draft.blogger.com<\/a>\u00a0and log in with your Google account. \u00a0Click\u00a0 Settings<\/em> and go to the Email & Mobile<\/em> tab and select the radio button to turn on mobile templates. Click the Save<\/em> button when you are done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I covered Google Blogger’s Beta mobile page templates in depth when they were rolled out last January. \u00a0They work well and look great and go a long way toward making the often\u00a0unruly\u00a0Blogger sites usable with a mobile browser. \u00a0At that time I lamented that the only iPhones and bada and Android devices were detected and served the mobile formatted pages. You can\u00a0force Blogger to use the mobile template by appending ?m=1 to the end of the URL of any page … Continue reading