Review from zdnet: and a lot of Web pages still recognize this as the old BlackBerry Web browser and so they display (crippled) text versions of their sites optimized for the legacy BlackBerry experience.
Have you noticed this? Have the newer OS updates fixed this?
I get a mini Ad on Facebook, telling me to optimize facebook for my Curve 3g. Never had one.
Review from zdnet: and a lot of Web pages still recognize this as the old BlackBerry Web browser and so they display (crippled) text versions of their sites optimized for the legacy BlackBerry experience.
Have you noticed this? Have the newer OS updates fixed this?
I get a mini Ad on Facebook, telling me to optimize facebook for my Curve 3g. Never had one.
Not necessarily optimized for the 'legacy BlackBerry experience', whatever that is, but simply recognizing it as a mobile browser and displaying the mobile version of the site, like CrackBerry's Wap3. I personally prefer this, as I can't see most full sites very well on any mobile-sized screen anyway.
Like I said on pretty much every post related to something like this, updating your OS will not fix your problem because the problem is not the phone itself, it's the website, contact the web developer and told them about that, I can guaranty that they will say they are working on it or they know about it or they will thank you for letting them know.
Why I'm saying that ? because I'm a web developer and I can show you exactly where the problem is, and this is how. Open your phone and type http://stupidact.com/phone.php , it will return your Phone metatag (You can try this url with your browser too, it will show you the metatag of your browser) .
Then the developer have some kind of checker that check your phone metatag with a list that they have and they redirect you to the right site. The problem is, they just look for the word blackberry and redirect you to a blackberry mobile site, but like you surely know, the OS on the OS 6 (the one that we have on torch) doesn't work like the old one, so we can have a better/higher design.
Maybe this will be too much info for you, but like I said, the best way is to contact the web developer and tell them that it's been 6 month that the Torch is released, it's time that they update their checking system. Updating your OS will do nothing about this.
So in other word, papped you were right haha
edit: but hey, if you try the link that I posted and are able to see a metatag that is not related to your torch, from your torch, please captureit!
I can't imagine that the torch could have the same metatag as the curve, I'm really sure it's just a matter of the web developer looked for Blackberry word only, not the full meta tag
Is there a way to make the phone squawk something that would get me to those "crippled" versions of a the sites? I'd rather not deal with the awesome, fully functional browser on normal websites any more than I absolutely have to.
Here's the two screenshots, taken on the same phone within seconds of either other.
It's no biggie for me as I have Facebook Touch bookmarked and saved on the home screen anyway but it just proves that Facebook does mis-identify my correctly identified phone.
that's a fail from facebook by looking at your screenshot, there is nothing you can do about it except telling facebook staff about it, send them your metatag with your message I'm sure it will get fix sooner if they know what you want.
Actually I just tested it and it show Facebook for your Torch on my end ???
and it does not show the touch site either, I had to click on the link at the bottom.
