{"id":3264,"date":"2009-03-25T19:49:07","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T03:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wapreview.com\/?p=3264"},"modified":"2009-03-25T19:52:40","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T03:52:40","slug":"saloncoms-new-mobile-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/3264\/","title":{"rendered":"Salon.com’s New Mobile Site"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Salon.com<\/p>\n

Salon.com is a long running (since 1995) and popular online magazine.\u00a0 It covers music, books, music, technology, trends, sports and politics with lengthy, well-written articles.<\/p>\n

Mobile is nothing new to Salon which launched an Avantgo “feed” in 2001 that’s also available on the open mobile web at http:\/\/www.salon.com\/partner\/avantgo\/<\/a>.\u00a0 That text-only site is still active, unchanged in format in eight years. It\u00a0 carries a selection of about ten recent articles from Salon.\u00a0 It’s an interesting read but probably a bit limiting for hard-core Salon fans with so few articles.<\/p>\n

Salon recently launched a thoroughly modern mobile site at mobile.salon.com<\/a>. It features a large portion of the content of the full web version of Salon.com, including\u00a0 20 feature articles on the front page with about 200\u00a0 more available by drilling down into the numerous categories. Articles now include\u00a0 images and reader comments.<\/p>\n

The new site seems\u00a0 aimed at users of smartphones rather than low end devices.\u00a0 Most images are re-sized to mobile friendly dimensions. The exception is the\u00a0 comics section where up to a dozen comic cells are combined into a single 600 px wide image.\u00a0 But pages are large for a pure mobile site,\u00a0 averaging about 50 KB with the comics pages running around 90 KB.\u00a0 The site works well with mobile full web browsers like Opera Mini and S60 Webkit and, of course the iPhone.\u00a0 Some recent feature phones may be able to handle Salon Mobile as well and for those that can’t the text-only version is still available. Source: Oh! Mobile Directory<\/a><\/p>\n

Filed in:<\/em> Wap Review Directory – News<\/a><\/p>\n

Ratings:<\/em> Content \"*\"\"*\"\"*\"<\/span>\"*\"<\/span>\"*\"<\/span> Usability \"X\"\"X\"\"X\"\"_\"\"_\"<\/span><\/p>\n

Ready.mobi Score: <\/em>2 “Bad”<\/a><\/p>\n

Mobile Link:<\/em> mobile.salon.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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