{"id":5567,"date":"2009-11-04T14:13:30","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T21:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wapreview.com\/?p=5567"},"modified":"2014-12-05T21:02:31","modified_gmt":"2014-12-06T05:02:31","slug":"how-stuff-works-mobile-site-wheres-the-namesake-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/5567\/","title":{"rendered":"Why No “How Stuff Works” Articles On howstuffworks.com?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"How<\/p>\n

HowStuffWorks.com<\/span><\/a> is a great site featuring thousands of articles that uses\u00a0 non-technical language, charts, diagrams and videos how all sorts of complex products, technologies and processes work. Typical articles have titles like “How X works” where “X” can be anything from “OLEDs<\/a>” to “identity theft<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

I recently discovered that How Stuff Works has a mobile site and immediately headed there to check it out. I have to say I was a little disappointed. There’s nothing wrong with the site’s design,it’s easy to navigate and uses browser detection to optimize markup, images and page size to deliver a good experience on everything from old wml-only phones to the iPhone. Although I wish site’s designer’s had applied a style=”max-width:100%; height:auto;”<\/a> attribute to that logo image to force Opera Mini to re-size it to fit.<\/p>\n

The problem with the mobile site is the content. Has far as I could see there is nothing there but a few quiz’s and a bunch of “Top 5 This ” and “10 Best That” lists like “10 Best Places for Outdoorsy Types to Live<\/a>‘ or “5 Myths about Steve Jobs<\/a>“. How<\/em> Stuff Works<\/span>‘ stock in trade, the “How X Works” pieces, seem to be totally missing. I used mobile site’s search engine to look for OLED and “identity theft” and came up with nothing. I’ll admit I enjoyed reading some of the “Top 10…” pieces but what ever happened to “How Stuff Works” on m.howstuffworks.com<\/a>?<\/p>\n

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

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

Ready.mobi Score: <\/em>4 “Good”<\/a><\/p>\n

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

HowStuffWorks.com is a great site featuring thousands of articles that uses\u00a0 non-technical language, charts, diagrams and videos how all sorts of complex products, technologies and processes work. Typical articles have titles like “How X works” where “X” can be anything from “OLEDs” to “identity theft“. I recently discovered that How Stuff Works has a mobile site and immediately headed there to check it out. I have to say I was a little disappointed. There’s nothing wrong with the site’s design,it’s … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[216],"tags":[211,1443],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5567"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5567"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20750,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5567\/revisions\/20750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}