mctrivia: I am typing this response on my HTC Kaiser (320x240 screen) sitting in a train, so I guess BrainKing can be used with mobile devices, if you install Opera Mobile. And BrainKing automatically makes some optimizations when "PocketPC" string is detected at the user agent.

Fencer: when i have tried to connect to brainking using a mobile device i get "the requested server does not have a DNS entry! "

Jason: Hmmm. I don't think that I can do anything about that because BrainKing obviously has a DNS entry. Didn't you make a typo?

Fencer: I have an HTC Touch running Windows Mobile 6. I get to the DoLogin page and there it sits forever with a blank page

mctrivia: And which web browser do you use?

Fencer: IE not much extra space to add extra programs right now

mctrivia: I am aware of this problem because it doesn't work with IE on my PDA too. There must be issues with HTTP header processing but I am not sure how to solve it. However, since everything works fine with Opera Mobile, it could be a problem of Microsoft's.

Fencer: since you're talking about mobile browsing, i've tried to see how the site looks like in my perfectly normal mobile phone. I'm using opera mini. I can read boards just fine. With some degree i can even play ponds. The game boards, however, simply suck. I can only view them properly on normal mode, but then i can only see a small portion of the board at a time. I've tested frog and dice games, i still need to check out chess boards. As it is now, there's still a long way to go...

pauloaguia: That's true. BrainKing is not fully optimized for playing games on mobile devices yet.

Fencer: Actually I stand corrected. Seems like I picked preciselly the wrong types of games. Attax, Backgammon, Ludo and Minishoggi are perfectly playable (though in the later case I can't see the captured pieces properly when in compact mode).
So it seems like it's not a long way to go - just some adjustments in particular games...

Fencer: i will try out opra if I can get the room.

Fencer: I tried yesterday to play on here through the Nintendo DS Opera Browser - I was able to make 1 move, but after that I gave up - just so much information that loads was slowing it down and making it hard to scroll to the place I needed to be to make the move.

I'm not sure if the site recognized it was a mobile version or not...

Idea: Go and register BrainKing.mobi - and then make a mobile version of BrainKing that has the very basic of information. Then you don't have to worry as much about having the site try to recognize which person is viewing the page from a mobile device or not.

coan.net: i like the idea of .mobi though the main site should still detect a mobile device and forward to that domain like facebook and google.

Or a cheaper option is create a subdomain mobile.brainking.com or just m.brainking.com

Fencer: Free mobile testing program: http://mtld.mobi/