Responsive VS Mobile styles
 

Hello all,

I've stucked on what is better to use in my vB site:

1. To chose of of the (very few) responsive styles that I found
2. To use the build-in Mobile style

First of all to make clear somethings:

1. I know how to build mobile templates
2. Even if it's a time waste, I'm using different php files for mobile devices to reduce the amount of queries and also show the most important content. This makes the mobile version very fast.

From the other hand a responsive style has it's own advantages with the most important that the interface is the exact the same (can't say that I like the poor mobile design).

Also I haven't use tapatalk which maybe is a good alternate solution?

What your opinion?

Thank you for your time
Chris

I prefer a true full responsive theme that will work on most modern browsers on any kind of device.
I have yet to see a theme for vBulletin 4 that is truly fully responsive on all pages.

For what I've found till now Dave, the only that appears to be a good solution is:
http://themecrate.com/

The only problem for me is that sidebar is not visible in mobile view, something very important for me as I'm adding there menus, data etc.

Other than this, nothing serious.

Yea that theme has some things that make me not consider it mobile friendly.
For example, you still have to click on the small hyperlinks in order to view a forum or a thread instead of making the whole div clickable.

Seems that you tested it more deeply than me :) ........ Didn't noticed that issue. What I found uncommon is that menus open on hover and not onclick something that messes the screen and confuse the user. But the author told me that it can be change easily to onclick.

Maybe you found any other style?

I found this one

http://vbulletin-theme.netron.web.tr/forum.php
http://vbulletin.web.tr/showthread.p...-Theme-Satista

I don't know how legitimate the site is though. Also in mobile the sidebar doesn't show. I've been looking for a good responsive theme to build off of for ages.

I prefer users have devices that don't require a mobile style. One responsive theme should serve all purposes. In reality, isn't virtually every device full HD now? I actually expect mobile devices to be 4K by this time next year.

They overdid the CSS/JavaScript effects. All those fade-in animations are very unnecessary.

what about the sultantheme styles? im using them for one project and for one thing you can upload images from them, that i dont know if you can do on some...like default mobile...

but more generally my approach is to go with responsive styles, then one we will strip back for ppl with limited data plans, but yeah i like that all in one with full function idea

Yeah they did. If it didn't have all that extra stuff it would be half way decent theme.