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> The main drawback with the page's unstyled design is that the page is not mobile friendly. Then fix mobile browsers to display it correctly.
by ErroneousBosh 3mo ago
> The main drawback with the page's unstyled design is that the page is not mobile friendly.
Then fix mobile browsers to display it correctly.
- phoghed 3mo agoThey’re already fixed, just add the meta tag if you give the slightest semblance of a shit. Otherwise don’t and people may be less inclined to engage with your content on their phone.
- ErroneousBosh 3mo agoAdd what in a meta tag? Why should web developers change their content to work on defective browsers?
- account42 3mo agoExactly, all the meta tag does is tell mobile browsers to follow the standard as written before they existed. They should just do that by default.
- phoghed 3mo agoBecause it wouldn’t work for every website and the web almost never breaks backward compatibility.
- ErroneousBosh 3mo agoSo if I have a block of totally unstyled HTML, why wouldn't a phone browser just display it in the most sensible way possible?
- account42 3mo agoIt would work a lot better than what mobile browsers are doing now. The only websites that can be argued to be helped by that were those with fixed table layouts - but those are still pretty unusable even with the standards-noncompliant hack. And websites that were mobile-compatible before like plain HTML sites like the TFA are needlessly broken.