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Since about a few days ago, the "Play Bridge Now" link on bridgebaseonline.com page is not showing up on BlackBerry Playbook tablets anymore. Entering the URL (http://www.bridgebas...ent.php?port=80) via copy/paste works, but I think a lot of players will be turned back by the missing link on the main page. I have a feeling that it is 'browser detection' issue.
I have confirmed this on two devices, both with the latest software updates.
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No BBO link on PlayBook anymore
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Posted 2013-June-24, 08:51
We removed much of the clutter on the home page on mobile devices (and we're planning on further simplification in the next day or so). In my testing, Flash applications don't work on Android devices -- when I try it, it says I need Flash, and then when I follow the link to the Flash download page it says that the device is not supported. So I removed all the links to Flash apps. It sounds like you installed Flash before Adobe changed this policy. Although Rain says that she used to be able to load BBO on her Android phone, and now can't -- I assume a software update disabled it.
There do seem to be third-party ways to install Flash. We felt that anyone clever enough to figure this out could also figure out the direct link to the BBO client ad bookmark it. But it's not worth wasting valuable screen space on tiny phone screens for a link that most can't use.
There do seem to be third-party ways to install Flash. We felt that anyone clever enough to figure this out could also figure out the direct link to the BBO client ad bookmark it. But it's not worth wasting valuable screen space on tiny phone screens for a link that most can't use.
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Posted 2013-June-24, 09:55
Blackberry Playbook is NOT an Android device. It has built-in support for Flash and BBO has worked flawlessly ever since I first used it on Playbook, more than 2 years ago. There is no need to install Flash on these devices, so I urge you to restore the link for this browser. Please let me know if you need my help with testing, I'm an IT pro and would be more than happy to do so. One more thing, Blackberry Playbook is a 7" tablet (not smartphone) perfectly suitable to the flash version of BBO.
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Posted 2013-June-24, 13:38
I just implemented the further simplification I mentioned. But I came up with a compromise: you can click on "Show the full version of this page" and it will revert to the PC version.
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Posted 2013-June-24, 14:59
If you know what you are doing, you can manually install Flash on an Android device. It is no longer "supported" on Android by Adobe, so that the auto-install function provided by Adobe is crippled on Android.
Speaking personally I do NOT know what I am doing, but even I managed to do this a while back. Don't ask me how I did it now. There are links if you know what to google. But I find that the dedicated BBO mobile app for android is more suitable anyway, so I gave up on that. Mainly because you would have to go through the same rigmarole each time you got wind of a Flash upgrade, which seems to happen pretty regularly.
Forgive the thread drift.
Speaking personally I do NOT know what I am doing, but even I managed to do this a while back. Don't ask me how I did it now. There are links if you know what to google. But I find that the dedicated BBO mobile app for android is more suitable anyway, so I gave up on that. Mainly because you would have to go through the same rigmarole each time you got wind of a Flash upgrade, which seems to happen pretty regularly.
Forgive the thread drift.
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Masterminding (pron. m
str-mnding) tr. v. - Any bid made by bridge player with which partner disagrees."Gentlemen, when the barrage lifts." 9th battalion, King's own Yorkshire light infantry,
2000 years earlier: "morituri te salutant"
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Posted 2013-June-25, 09:25
1eyedjack, on 2013-June-24, 14:59, said:
If you know what you are doing, you can manually install Flash on an Android device. It is no longer "supported" on Android by Adobe, so that the auto-install function provided by Adobe is crippled on Android.
Yes, that's what I meant when I said that there are third-party ways to do it. And you can bookmark http://www.bridgebas...ient/client.php to get to BBO without going through the homepage.
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Posted 2013-June-25, 14:00
This works very well. Thanks a lot for addressing this issue so quickly.
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