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ReadyNAS OS 6 web interface—slight changes for mobile access
I've tried using the ReadyNAS OS 6 admin page on my phone (iPhone) and it's near impossible apart from a few very basic tasks.
Not for lack of support from the phone/browser, there's just some oddities in the way the layout is constricted that means it doesn't work at all on small screens (would be fine for example on a tablet). You can see what I mean even without a phone, by going to the admin page and resizing your browser window down to about the size of a phone screen.
The most obvious issue is the top bar, and its persistence when scrolling down. It takes up most of the screen on my phone, and cannot be zoomed/resized nor scrolled past, so I get about 1/3 of the screen to display everything else below it. The width becomes an issue on some pages too, but it seems there's no minimum width enforced, so while you avoid having to scroll sideways to see more things... at some point they just overlap and become useless.
I think this would be fixed with a minimum width (sideways scrolling or zooming out required below some width), and some way of hiding/scrolling past the top bars (I've seen some nice implementations where such bars auto hide most of the time, but if you start scrolling back up a long way they come back).
The other issue is dialog windows; if they're bigger than the screen you can't get to the areas outside the screen.
In short, the problem is just the restrictions on the viewport; there's no issues with the content or technology used in the admin pages, so it's a shame not to be able to use the whole interface on phones (or I guess any small sized screen) because of this.
Not for lack of support from the phone/browser, there's just some oddities in the way the layout is constricted that means it doesn't work at all on small screens (would be fine for example on a tablet). You can see what I mean even without a phone, by going to the admin page and resizing your browser window down to about the size of a phone screen.
The most obvious issue is the top bar, and its persistence when scrolling down. It takes up most of the screen on my phone, and cannot be zoomed/resized nor scrolled past, so I get about 1/3 of the screen to display everything else below it. The width becomes an issue on some pages too, but it seems there's no minimum width enforced, so while you avoid having to scroll sideways to see more things... at some point they just overlap and become useless.
I think this would be fixed with a minimum width (sideways scrolling or zooming out required below some width), and some way of hiding/scrolling past the top bars (I've seen some nice implementations where such bars auto hide most of the time, but if you start scrolling back up a long way they come back).
The other issue is dialog windows; if they're bigger than the screen you can't get to the areas outside the screen.
In short, the problem is just the restrictions on the viewport; there's no issues with the content or technology used in the admin pages, so it's a shame not to be able to use the whole interface on phones (or I guess any small sized screen) because of this.
5 Replies
- Changes to make mobile easier would be nice. There are a couple of other approaches one could also use - pages targeted for mobile (https://nasip.m.admin ???) or a web app. The web app approach has become the mainstream way to handle it. Though the changes drfrogsplat is proposing wouldn't hurt the normal web browsing experience.
- Interface is ok with iPad
yes.super-poussin wrote: Interface is ok with iPad
But on my galaxy s4 the top bar takes about 2/3 of the screen, so there is no room for the info.
Portrait is worse due to the lack of horizontal scrolling.
I imagine iPhone has the same problems.- I submitted this same issue in the beta. I was contacted about specifics then never heard back from NTGR about it.
- Could we please have a mobile optimized interface? On my large iPhone 6 Plus I couldn't create a new backup this AM no matter how hard I tried. If it even just allowed full scrolling and didn't allow shrinkage beyond a particular size, that would be a big improvement. Thanks!
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