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We should nurture more accessibility, in this case, mobile compatibility. For instance, consider someone who has limited access to desktop computers and have t
by EuAndreh 3y ago
We should nurture more accessibility, in this case, mobile compatibility.
For instance, consider someone who has limited access to desktop computers and have to go by with a mobile device. These individuals do exist, and their access is as legitimate as any other.
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- marginalia_nu 3y agoMobile compatible websites are strictly worse though. It's why almost all desktop websites are just a hideous jumble of boxes these days. It's virtually impossible to make a website that is well designed on both desktop and mobile. As long as the affordances of mouse+keyboard and touchscreen are as different as they are, one of the user groups needs will suffer a detrimental compromise.
- EuAndreh 3y agoAn empty HTML page works on both. Add some margin and spacing and it keeps working. After that, what you can do is ruin it, targetting a webpage for a specific screen size.
- marginalia_nu 3y agoRight, but if you aren't able to make assumptions about screen size, you can't use for example a table, which is very useful if you want to convey data. A phone screen just isn't big enough to display tables with more than two or three columns. There's no reason desktop users should need to be crippled in this fashion. Tables are a very powerful tool for conveying lots of structured data in a way that's useful and intuitive. Avoiding them means losing out on this. This is the exact problem the website we're discussing is having. You just can't show the relatively small amount of information side-by-side on mobile the way they are trying to. The only solution to it is to make it less intuitive and show them on top of each other in a complete jumble.