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Am I the only one reading this on a mobile? How do they get away with splitting the article over no less than 12 pages, two or three paragraphs per "page"? I r

by codeka 14y ago

Am I the only one reading this on a mobile? How do they get away with splitting the article over no less than 12 pages, two or three paragraphs per "page"? I read the first page and gave up because I'm not going to sit there while its loading 12 times!

chc 14y ago
I'm reading it on an iPhone and I got the whole thing on one page. Maybe you're using a browser the site doesn't recognize so it's sending you s version optimized for a "least common denominator" mobile browser? I know some old phones and/or plans couldn't handle large file sizes.
- codeka 14y ago
  Like eljaco, I was using Chrome on Android. When I switch to the built-in Android browser, then I get everything on a single page. That seems like a really fragile way to build a mobile site, and I don't really understand how splitting the article over 13 pages would be better for "least common denominator" mobile browser...
  - ajross 14y ago
    Simply selecting "Request Desktop Site" from the menu in Chrome for Android pulls up the same (quite usable) one-page presentation. This is just a bad "mobile" site in general, and a broken browser detection scheme on top of it.
  - chc 14y ago
    Like I said, there exist mobile browsers that can't load large pages. I used to have one. I think their browser detection could stand to be a lot better, but the least common denominator really does require paging.
eljaco 14y ago
Same here. Chrome on Android, seeing 13 pages.
- jrockway 14y ago
  I almost always get the desktop version of sites on Chrome/Android too. I looked into this in detail and it's just stupid user-agent sniffing; Chrome on Android specifically sends the string "Mobile" to indicate that it's a mobile device. (My UA is currently "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.0.4; Galaxy Nexus Build/IMM76F) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.166 Mobile Safari/535.19".)

by codeka 14y ago

chc 14y ago

I'm reading it on an iPhone and I got the whole thing on one page. Maybe you're using a browser the site doesn't recognize so it's sending you s version optimized for a "least common denominator" mobile browser? I know some old phones and/or plans couldn't handle large file sizes.

codeka 14y ago
Like eljaco, I was using Chrome on Android. When I switch to the built-in Android browser, then I get everything on a single page. That seems like a really fragile way to build a mobile site, and I don't really understand how splitting the article over 13 pages would be better for "least common denominator" mobile browser...
- ajross 14y ago
  Simply selecting "Request Desktop Site" from the menu in Chrome for Android pulls up the same (quite usable) one-page presentation. This is just a bad "mobile" site in general, and a broken browser detection scheme on top of it.
- chc 14y ago
  Like I said, there exist mobile browsers that can't load large pages. I used to have one. I think their browser detection could stand to be a lot better, but the least common denominator really does require paging.

eljaco 14y ago

Same here. Chrome on Android, seeing 13 pages.

jrockway 14y ago
I almost always get the desktop version of sites on Chrome/Android too. I looked into this in detail and it's just stupid user-agent sniffing; Chrome on Android specifically sends the string "Mobile" to indicate that it's a mobile device. (My UA is currently "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.0.4; Galaxy Nexus Build/IMM76F) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.166 Mobile Safari/535.19".)