I may have missed a discussion or post on this, but are there any plans to create a WOL app? How easy/expensive would it be?

'Twould be handy.

Funny you should mention this, Dave, as we have been kicking the idea around for a while. Greg and I attended a Guardian seminar on the topic last year and we have been tyre-kicking the notion since. It will cost though and the different platforms need different software and even layout, for now at any rate. As a facile example, some will take standard layout and maintain it as set by the 'publisher'; others want it without such formatting so that it can be scrolled more easily (e.g. Kindle). At least that is aha tI understand but more research needed. Thanks and watch this space (without breath being held!).

Hi Dave,

There are some plans to make the site more friendly for tablets and phones. This would mean different layouts / font sizes for different screen sizes (phone, table, desktop) and changing some of the interface to make it more touch screen friendly.

There will be a site design refresh (hopefully this month) that has partly been motivated by the increase in users on phones and tablets. Unfortunately in this first phase you won't see much improvement on these devices but the infrastructure will be in a better state to hopefully roll something out later in the year.

An app isn't likely to happen in the near future as we don't have enough resources to build it and more importantly support it in the long term.

Paul

Thanks for the update, Julian and Paul, and thank you for everything you do.