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These people need to learn about "request desktop site on mobile". It's buried in Safari, but still doable. > For a company the size of Netflix to fail in thi
by jim-greer 11y ago
These people need to learn about "request desktop site on mobile". It's buried in Safari, but still doable.
> For a company the size of Netflix to fail in this regard is quite irksome.
As a shareholder, I applaud them for not spending resources to include little-used features on their mobile site. Being a big company doesn't mean you can do all things for all people.
- onion2k 11y agoBeing a big company doesn't mean you can do all things for all people. No, but that doesn't change the fact it can be really annoying for users. Annoying enough for them to write a blog post in some cases.
- dclowd9901 11y agoRequest desktop quite often fails. I'm assuming the browser is passing a desktop use agent so I can't imagine why it does. But it seems to happen more on sites with the "m" subdomain.
- jim-greer 11y agoI've never seen it work on a site with an m subdomain. But Netflix serves both sites from www. Edit: I take it back. Somehow it works right on my own site, Kongregate. I wonder what the trick is? Edit: The trick seems to be a session variable that remembers the browser used to say it was mobile. Then a request to 'm' with desktop headers should redirect to 'www'.