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For Wikipedia, I imagine they have interests in making the content most accessible on the maximum number of devices. Which means pages crafted to be lightweight
by 41b696ef1113 5y ago
For Wikipedia, I imagine they have interests in making the content most accessible on the maximum number of devices. Which means pages crafted to be lightweight and minimal Javascript. Yes, you could do that all in one page, at the altar of developer velocity, but I think the strict isolation is user forward.
A quick test from Firefox dev tools for initial page load:
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonon https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonon 1.04MB, Finish 619 ms
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonon 1.94MB, Finish 1500 ms
- rozab 5y agoWow. I guess today I'll be writing a stylesheet to un-mobile-ify m.wikipedia.org
- j-james 5y agoI use a short userscript: // @include *://*.m.wikipedia.org/* window.location.replace("https://en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org" + window.location.pathname);
- stan_rogers 5y agoI believe the object was not so much to force mobile links/URLs to desktop URLs, but to style the lighter mobile page for the desktop.