Suggestion for people on the road ("FT lite")

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Apr 2, 2004 | 1:55 pm

ScottC

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Suggestion for people on the road ("FT lite")

The FT Archives are a "lite" version of the board, if you want no graphics, no reply option etc... then this is the way to go!

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/archive/index.php

Apr 3, 2004 | 5:14 am

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Most excellent tip

'Flyertalk Lite' is a great way to read forums even from my phone. ^

Apr 5, 2004 | 1:12 pm

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Great Suggestion!

Apr 19, 2004 | 6:54 am

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Odd, Flyertalk Deluxe works fine, but on my Blackberry the Lite edition (archives) aren't compatible with the browser. Go figure.

Update: Nevermind, the home page of Deluxe works, but the forum pages are also now incompatible.

No more FT on the road for me.

Last edited by Pismocrab; Apr 19, 2004 at 6:57 am

Apr 19, 2004 | 7:02 am

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Originally Posted by Pismocrab

Odd, Flyertalk Deluxe works fine, but on my Blackberry the Lite edition (archives) aren't compatible with the browser. Go figure.

Update: Nevermind, the home page of Deluxe works, but the forum pages are also now incompatible.

No more FT on the road for me.

Which Blackberry are you using? I have no problems browsing any of FT, or even posting on mine.

Apr 19, 2004 | 9:29 pm

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Umm, dunno it's company provided. R1900G mean anything?

Apr 19, 2004 | 10:12 pm

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Originally Posted by Pismocrab

Umm, dunno it's company provided. R1900G mean anything?

That's a Blackberry 5810, it should be able to work on FT, sounds like your office has set some restrictions on how HTML is browsed on the device...

Apr 23, 2004 | 9:58 pm

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Could be. It worked with the old FT, but I suppose the new FT could be using some fancy code deemed unacceptable. Bummer.

Jul 26, 2004 | 2:24 pm

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FT works great from the high speed connection I get at the hotel chain I stay at. ^

Jan 11, 2005 | 4:17 pm

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I have a Nextel Blackberry and can never navigate past the homepage. I'm going to try the lite version and see if that works for me.

Jan 11, 2005 | 9:09 pm

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"Lite" works on my Nextel i830. Not great, but in a bind it works well enough.

Feb 10, 2005 | 11:25 am

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FT via WAP would be nice or something lightweight.

Aug 5, 2006 | 4:45 pm

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This is super. Sorry I'm so late but I just found this.

Mar 22, 2007 | 4:56 pm

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Could the url for the light version be changed to simply flyertalk.com/lite or something similar? Most of us have FTlite bookmarked, but when telling others about it, the current url is a bit of a mouthful.