[seqfan] Re: OEIS Frontend Redesign

[Alonso Del Arte]

Okay, mobile is limited, but at least you should be able to do basic
searching. I can tell you that on both Android and iPhone, basic OEIS
searches are needlessly difficult. The OEIS is practically useless on
mobile.

There's a very simple change that would go a long way: have the server add
this line to every page:

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />

Just that one line would be a big help for basic OEIS searches on mobile.

Al

On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 3:57 PM Marc LeBrun <mlb at well.com> wrote:

> The soul of the OEIS is the data, not the presentation.  It's a recurring
> mistake to conflate the online knowledge base with the website.
>
> There's no reason there has to be just one presentation that can visit the
> data, as Alexander & Tom have nicely demonstrated.
>
> To wit, the Universal Resource Locator https://oeis.org <https://oeis.org/>
> simply addresses the "classic" presentation of the data, while the
> Universal Resource Locator https://www.intdb.io <https://www.intdb.io/>
> addresses their new presentation of the data.
>
> So, is there actually a problem that needs to be solved here?  I don't
> really see one.
>
> What might be a nice easy community-building move would be to put a button
> or similar affordance on the oeis-dot-org front page that would link to the
> intb-dot-io front page (where there is already a link back to
> oeis-dot-org).  Maybe we could put it under the existing "login" affordance
> or something.
>
> To future-proof in case users want to create yet more front ends -- and I
> think that would actually be great -- we'll can make it link instead to an
> OEIS page that's a "gallery" of alternative interfaces.
>
> It's not like offering a choice presents such a burden that this requires
> an exclusive either-or decision.  If a user prefers one to the other, it's
> no big deal to type either  "OEIS" or "INTDB" as the spirit moves them.
> And moreover they can bookmark their favorite, their browsers will offer it
> in their autocomplete and "recently visited" histories, etc etc.
>
>
> (That said, just for the record, I also am among those that dislike the
> currently-fashionable UI styles, optimized for sausage-fingered fumbling on
> elephantine phones.  I want more meat and less whitespace -- in fact i wish
> the main OEIS banner was shorter so I could get to the main course with
> less scrolling!
>
> I'm not personally very sympathetic about this issue, because I never try
> to do anything serious except on my desktop machine.  If you insist on
> using your mobile phone, or your Apple Watch, or your Virtual Reality
> goggles, or the driver's console of your car, you are naturally going to be
> limited in what you can do!
>
> Heh, Neil, you remind me of this guy:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKiIroiCvZ0 )
>
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