I first want to commend the vpfree2 folks for their work. Hopefully my feedback below can help you to make the experience for a mobile user even better.
I went to vpfree2.com/mobile on my cellphone, which is a Motorola Razr. While I found it useful, there were some problems. These may or may not occur on other cellphones:
1) Text doesn't wrap, so you can't see a lot of the information. For the casino or game info, much of the information is truncated (see below). This is the most serious problem, at least when using my phone. [Probably a stylesheet issue, since the HTML has almost no formatting information. Might also just be my phone :(]
2) There is a margin on the top and left of each page that reduces the amount of visible text even further. [I suggest no margins.]
3) The 'Find By Name' feature is a little picky. For example, if I enter "harrahs", it finds nothing. You have to enter either "harrah" or "harrah's". [I suggest stripping any punctuation, spaces, etc.]
4) Search results should be displayed on top. I couldn't even tell the search was successful until I scrolled down. The "Find By Name" and text field take up the entire first screen on my phone. Upon scrolling down, the first 10 casinos were listed but truncated like this:
Harrah's Atlantic C
Harrah's Cherokee (Che
Harrah's Chester (Chest
Harrah's Council Bluffs
Harrah's Joliet (Joliet,
Harrah's Lake Tahoe (S
Harrah's Las Vegas (La
Harrah's Laughlin (Laug
Harrah's Metropolis (M
Harrah's N Kansas City
5) The Previous/Next buttons should be repeated both above and below the search results for easy navigation. I had to scroll all the way to the top to go the next page. [minor]
6) Selecting "Next" gave "No Casinos found for you". Strangely, the "Next" button works fine from my computer's web browser, showing the next 10 casinos, but not on my phone. [major problem]
7) If I select "Harrah's Las Vegas" and then "Best Games + Machine", I do get the list of games, but again they are truncated like this:
99.54% JoB 1-2-3-4-
99.17% BP 1-2-3-4-5-
98.98% DDB 1-1-3-4-
98.91% DW44 1-2-3-4
98.45% JoB 1-2-3-4-
98.01% BP 1-2-3-4-5-
Selecting the first line, 99.54% JoB, yields the following truncated summary:
99.54% JoB 1-2-3-4-6-
(1) $5/$10/$25 1 Play Slant
(6) $10/$25 1 Play Slant (
(3) $100 1 Play MG Slant i
[I apologize for repeating the truncation issue, I just wanted to report what I experienced]
8) I was surprised to see NSU listed as DW44 for some casinos. I later found out that it's supposed to say "NSU" on the end, but was being truncated, so this is ok.
Probably more than you wanted to know...but I again thank you for the effort. As I said, if the truncation issue is fixed, vpfree2 is very useful even from a cellphone!
JD
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