- Author: Bryon J. Noel
Published on: June 24, 2011
With great anticipation I'd like to announce the release of the Mobile Blogs! We have completely restyled and reformed the Blogs for mobile devices.
There are some functions that may not work well from a mobile device, such as writing a new blog post. There are somethings that flat out do not work. Like uploading files from an iPhone. Unfortunately, that is a limitation of the iPhone and iPad's. Other mobile devices may or may not allow uploads. Other than this all the functionality of the blogs is available on mobile devices.
Beyond these we are still working out some of the minor bugs. So if you run into one of these "bugs", please let us know!
There's a lot that has been done to make the blogs mobile friendly. If something does not seem mobile friendly to you then we'd appreciate feedback. This will help us as we build more and more mobile friendly sites.
And will we be notified if/when a previously squished URL is ... re-purposed?
We are *hoping* that the Squisher URLs will be permanent. But we can't guarantee it. Those URLs actually are based on how our server handles errors.
SO- we have Permafrost...which will function as long as we have a ucanr.org domain. The Permafrost URLs are also very short, but there is a number involved. They would not be horrible in printed form. I can pretty much guarantee these will work for as long as I am here.
As far as a QR code having a long-form URL next to it, good idea. The permafrost code that generates the QR code can be printed right near it.
TL;DR- use the Permafrost URLs both in QR form and in printed form. They are short, easy to read, and won't go away. Don't panic about Squisher URLs, they are not dying soon.