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They’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
by phoghed 3mo ago
They’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.