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I use a tablet full time and have not seen this. What large news sites? Usually web sites hide some elements in a menu widget on narrow displays. The functiona
by gregjor 2y ago
I use a tablet full time and have not seen this. What large news sites?
Usually web sites hide some elements in a menu widget on narrow displays. The functionality is all there but presented for the display width. Look for the “hamburger” menu, three horizontal lines.
Web sites not designed to display properly at various widths should just scroll horizontally.
Because phones greatly outnumber tablets or computer screens for most web site visits it would surprise me to find a major public web site not optimized for phone display, typically portrait orientation.
- ggm 2y agoThe Australian.com, news ltd flagship web in Australia is one which consistently fails to show the hamburger menu. WSJ and Others render body text partially off screen and it won't scroll: no left margin This is all in chrome on android 13
- gregjor 2y agoBoth of those sites work fine for me on an iPad, in both portrait and landscape mode. iOS/iPadOS let you choose to view the desktop site (the browser lies about the user agent), but even in mobile mode those sites work fine. I rarely encounter web sites that don't work on mobile -- for some time now "mobile first" represents the best practice for web site design, because of smartphones. Maybe something wonky in your setup, I don't know, but as a full-time tablet user I don't see the issue you report.
- ggm 2y agoAndroid, Chrome. Could well be age of device.