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People should just stop making web pages for mobile. So many times I have had to force the desktop version of a page to actually get what I'm there for.

by tokai 4y ago

birdyrooster 4y ago
The handset is a dead concept and yet here we are carrying them around it’s sad. I can’t remember the last time I put a phone to my face yet that is exactly what the form factor was made for. It’s all but guaranteed Apple cannibalizes the phone handset market for a new mobile platform.
marginalia_nu 4y ago
I think the real dead end is making websites for both mobile and desktop. They are simply too different to ever have any real hope of producing something that translates well to both without hopelessly crippling one of them. Mobile-only sites, sure. Desktop-only sites, why not. If you want both, do both instead of making a hideous web design Cronenberg pleading for the relief of death.
- bookofjoe 4y ago
  Back when mobile exploded I got a bee in my bonnet that I had to have an app for my website. I spent a couple thousand dollars to have a highly recommended mobile website designer do this for me. The result was HORRIBLE and I decided to just live with what I had. Turns out my native website on mobile looks GREAT, far better than on a computer screen. Go figure.
- tomcam 4y ago
  > hideous web design Cronenberg Deep cut
- whstl 4y ago
  I find that responsive design works well for simpler webpages. But for more complex pages or apps, yeah: it totally falls apart. However... whenever I see an app or site that has two separate websites, I know I'm in for trouble: sometimes one version will miss some features, and I'll invariably have to request the desktop website. The worst of them was my previous health insurance provider, that only had one very important feature in the mobile version.
  - sizzle 4y ago
    m.website.com or website.com/m
    - whstl 4y ago
      Yes, this is the kind of thing that also sucks in my experience.
      - sizzle 4y ago
        Yeah I remember using my palm device or flip phone to browse these sites
phendrenad2 4y ago
I think this is already happening. People are realizing that not every site needs to work (or more often, become a horrible vertically-scrolling soup) on mobile. The only laggard is Google which is still stuck in 2009 and downranks mobile-unfriendly pages (even on desktop searches)

People should just stop making web pages for mobile. So many times I have had to force the desktop version of a page to actually get what I'm there for.

by tokai 4y ago

People should just stop making web pages for mobile. So many times I have had to force the desktop version of a page to actually get what I'm there for.

birdyrooster 4y ago

The handset is a dead concept and yet here we are carrying them around it’s sad. I can’t remember the last time I put a phone to my face yet that is exactly what the form factor was made for. It’s all but guaranteed Apple cannibalizes the phone handset market for a new mobile platform.

marginalia_nu 4y ago

I think the real dead end is making websites for both mobile and desktop. They are simply too different to ever have any real hope of producing something that translates well to both without hopelessly crippling one of them. Mobile-only sites, sure. Desktop-only sites, why not. If you want both, do both instead of making a hideous web design Cronenberg pleading for the relief of death.

bookofjoe 4y ago
Back when mobile exploded I got a bee in my bonnet that I had to have an app for my website. I spent a couple thousand dollars to have a highly recommended mobile website designer do this for me. The result was HORRIBLE and I decided to just live with what I had. Turns out my native website on mobile looks GREAT, far better than on a computer screen. Go figure.
tomcam 4y ago
> hideous web design Cronenberg Deep cut
whstl 4y ago
I find that responsive design works well for simpler webpages. But for more complex pages or apps, yeah: it totally falls apart. However... whenever I see an app or site that has two separate websites, I know I'm in for trouble: sometimes one version will miss some features, and I'll invariably have to request the desktop website. The worst of them was my previous health insurance provider, that only had one very important feature in the mobile version.
- sizzle 4y ago
  m.website.com or website.com/m
  - whstl 4y ago
    Yes, this is the kind of thing that also sucks in my experience.
    - sizzle 4y ago
      Yeah I remember using my palm device or flip phone to browse these sites

phendrenad2 4y ago

I think this is already happening. People are realizing that not every site needs to work (or more often, become a horrible vertically-scrolling soup) on mobile. The only laggard is Google which is still stuck in 2009 and downranks mobile-unfriendly pages (even on desktop searches)