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Page is unreadable on a tablet.

• jacquesm 8y ago
  Getting quite tired of comments like these. The web was made for computers, not for tablets. If tablets are dumbed down and handicapped to the point that they can no longer partake in the web your beef is with the tablet manufacturer or the browser vendor. Either one or both has all the tools at their disposal to fix these issues. All the webserver does is serve up a bunch of data, the interpretation of that data is up to your client.
  • mikeash 8y ago
    “Unreadable on tablet/mobile” is almost always a misguided attempt to accommodate those platforms, though. Sites made without even thinking about them tend to work just fine.
    • lopmotr 8y ago
      Yes. I think this is what people are actually aggravated by. Somebody did extra work, however well-intentioned, that resulted in a worse experience than had they done nothing. On Chrome Android, you can "Request desktop site" which changes the User-Agent to look like a desktop.
  • dogma1138 8y ago
    Them not implementing scaling correctly means one should have a beef with the hardware vendor? really? It also scales poorly on my 4K display in landscape mode and it’s a unreadable as it is on my phone on my portrait 1440p computer displays. Who should I blame?
  • fredsted 8y ago
    To be fair, it's just not a very good Web site. There's some 3D stuff in the background making it very slow, too. I usually don't comment like this, because it's noise. I just downvote and move on. But if no-one tells the author, they'll never know.
  • spc476 8y ago
    Page was unreadable on a desktop computer. To read the actual content, I had to disable Javascript, and disable CSS rendering (Firefox: View->Page Style->No Style). Otherwise, any interaction with that page resulted in the Beach Ball Of Death, as my computer struggled to keep up. Perhaps it's my own fault though, for not using an 8-way 64-bit core machine with 64G RAM to view a site for a hypothetical machine from the late 80s. EDIT: It also looks like the main home page is attempting to load every font from webfonts.fonts.com. At the very least, it references 271 external fonts. It also takes 1.8M of HTML to render some 4K of text.
  • Annatar 8y ago
    The web was made on a NeXT workstation for any device, on any operating system. Sir Tim Berners-Lee would likely be extremely grumpy if he read your comment.
    • jacquesm 8y ago
      Phones are computers these days, so are tablets. I'm not aware of any mechanical interpreters for web pages but I'm open to being surprised.
  • mortenjorck 8y ago
    Sorry (and apologies for a tangent completely unrelated to the OP), but this is a terribly reactionary way to view web technology. Moreover, it ignores what was an endemic problem in web design up until the proliferation of responsive layout. If CSS had never become a layout language, sure. We could all be browsing on opinionated clients that render everything arbitrarily. But that's not what happened, and front-end people for much of the past 20 years instead wrote opinionated layout. These layouts generally assumed quite a few things, such as a landscape-oriented display and a certain resolution or point density. So yes, these sites were, as you say, made for computers, not for tablets – quite in opposition to the original, client-agnostic vision of the web. Modern, responsive web design attempts to bring the layout-oriented web closer to the client-agnostic place it started by assuming fewer things about the client. You're advocating for more assumptions.