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I get the frustration, but mobile sites in general also have this problem. "Request desktop site" should be a more prominent feature, at least in safari which i

by rashkov 10y ago

I get the frustration, but mobile sites in general also have this problem. "Request desktop site" should be a more prominent feature, at least in safari which is what I'm familiar with. It's quite buried unfortunately and I think that more non-techies would benefit from knowing about it.

pryelluw 10y ago
Firefox on Android does have this feature as well.
- zem 10y ago
  as does chrome on android
ChrisClark 10y ago
It's right on the main menu in Chrome on Android. A checkbox item on the menu, so you know you can turn it on and off. So at least it isn't that hidden, same level as the other main features.
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m-p-3 10y ago
And websites should honor the "Request desktop version" at all time. It's frustrating when you enable the option and it still bring up the mobile version.
- samat 10y ago
  That is responsive layout! Something people love
  - NTripleOne 10y ago
    A poorly made responsive layout* If it was any good, it would be showing the desktop scaling/layout/whatever instead of the mobile when 'show desktop version' is on. It's also not always about being on a responsive sites, a lot of places still do a m.website.com redirect when visiting the main site from a mobile device, but with no backwards redirect when visiting the mobile site (which is almost certainly non-responsive, otherwise there'd be essentially no need for the m.* site) as a desktop client - so you hit 'show desktop version', the m.* page refreshes and you just get the mobile site with funny scaling.
    - saurik 10y ago
      The website has no way of knowing you did that: this is actually Apple's fault for not changing the logical browser dimensions when you use this feature.
      - macandcheese 10y ago
        Well, no, it's not - it's just weirdly labeled. Request mobile site is really only applicable to the small amount of websites that serve a m.domain.com. Now, they could have an option to "request desktop SIZE" that would result in sites that are responsively built rendering in "desktop size" mode.
        saurik 10y ago
        You can argue that any limitation is simply due to the feature being mislabeled, but in this case it seems pretty clear what people both expect this feature to do as currently named, and that happens to match what people also seem to want, and that would include changing the viewport to make certain you actually get the desktop site functionality.
lmm 10y ago
Mobile web browsers should just never allow a site to disable zoom. That would fix the main thing I end up requesting desktop site for.
- NTripleOne 10y ago
  That's an option in android chrome.

by rashkov 10y ago

pryelluw 10y ago

Firefox on Android does have this feature as well.

zem 10y ago
as does chrome on android

ChrisClark 10y ago

It's right on the main menu in Chrome on Android. A checkbox item on the menu, so you know you can turn it on and off. So at least it isn't that hidden, same level as the other main features.

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m-p-3 10y ago

And websites should honor the "Request desktop version" at all time. It's frustrating when you enable the option and it still bring up the mobile version.

samat 10y ago
That is responsive layout! Something people love
- NTripleOne 10y ago
  A poorly made responsive layout* If it was any good, it would be showing the desktop scaling/layout/whatever instead of the mobile when 'show desktop version' is on. It's also not always about being on a responsive sites, a lot of places still do a m.website.com redirect when visiting the main site from a mobile device, but with no backwards redirect when visiting the mobile site (which is almost certainly non-responsive, otherwise there'd be essentially no need for the m.* site) as a desktop client - so you hit 'show desktop version', the m.* page refreshes and you just get the mobile site with funny scaling.
  - saurik 10y ago
    The website has no way of knowing you did that: this is actually Apple's fault for not changing the logical browser dimensions when you use this feature.
    - macandcheese 10y ago
      Well, no, it's not - it's just weirdly labeled. Request mobile site is really only applicable to the small amount of websites that serve a m.domain.com. Now, they could have an option to "request desktop SIZE" that would result in sites that are responsively built rendering in "desktop size" mode.
      - saurik 10y ago
        You can argue that any limitation is simply due to the feature being mislabeled, but in this case it seems pretty clear what people both expect this feature to do as currently named, and that happens to match what people also seem to want, and that would include changing the viewport to make certain you actually get the desktop site functionality.

lmm 10y ago

Mobile web browsers should just never allow a site to disable zoom. That would fix the main thing I end up requesting desktop site for.

NTripleOne 10y ago
That's an option in android chrome.