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At first I was going to say "I agree… in 2020 there's no reason not to have a mobile-friendly docs site… but in my experience with documentation sites, not many
by kaycebasques 6y ago
At first I was going to say "I agree… in 2020 there's no reason not to have a mobile-friendly docs site… but in my experience with documentation sites, not many people visit from mobile devices". However, I just checked web.dev and developers.google.com/web and our mobile traffic is non-trivial.
- nkrisc 6y agoAs a hobbyist and self-taught programmer I (pre-COVID) spent a lot of time reading documentation on my phone while commuting home from work. I'm very pleased when documentation works well on a mobile device.
- kaycebasques 6y agoWhat sites worked well for you? Anything in particular about how they worked well (or how other sites have not worked well)?
- nkrisc 6y agoIf have to go back and find examples, but there's not really much to it at all. A long as it's formatted nicely for reading on a small screen, that's a success. Most recently I suppose would be the Rust book: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ It's a delight on mobile. I've noticed many documentation sites she'd to be based some publishing platform that probably includes a good response mobile design, so it's a feature you can get "for free", yet not every docs site uses such a platform or just hasn't implemented their own responsive behavior. I'll update if I can remember one I read recently that didn't have a great mobile experience. It's really a very low bar.