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Indeed. The thing that annoys me about responsive design is when I browse on my phone and can't find what I'm looking for so I "Request Desktop Site" and it's t
by kamjam 13y ago
Indeed. The thing that annoys me about responsive design is when I browse on my phone and can't find what I'm looking for so I "Request Desktop Site" and it's the same! Grrr. Even worse when they STILL serve me all those images, but they are just hidden, eating up my limited bandwidth. Double Grrrr.
- Pxtl 13y agoUsually "Request desktop site" means booting you back to the homepage of the desktop site.
- kamjam 13y agoNo, that's not correct, at least in my experience. "Request desktop site" usually means "reload the same page, but send a User Agent string so the server thinks I'm calling from a full desktop browser". This works for websites where the server does some UA string sniffing and sends different html+assets for different types of devices. The same works in reverse. In Chrome Dev Tools I can set the UA to iPhone/iPad/Android (http://imgur.com/mJY6lP6 http://imgur.com/mJY6lP6) and I should expect to see a mobile version of the site. Of course, with Responsive this does not work since responsive looks at screen size, not UA string. For example, try changing your UA string in Chrome to iOS 6 and visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/
- Pxtl 13y agoI mean literally if there's a button on the page that says "I want to see the desktop site". Those inevitably stink.