Re:A Computer for Everything: One Year of iPad Pro
by reustle on Saturday December 17, 2016 @07:12AM
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I've been trying to replace most of my daily (chrome-based) browser tasks from my macbook air to an ipad pro 12" for the past 2 weeks. Trying to do anything reasonable on safari/chrome for iOS is a pain in the ass, and is nowhere near desktop replacement level. I really wish it was, and I use "request desktop version" often, but even then so many sites are so broken. Safari mobile is just not ready for this "serious" work. We need a desktop-level browser on iOS.
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Re:A Computer for Everything: One Year of iPad Pro
by givinguflac on Saturday December 17, 2016 @12:13PM
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I'm genuinely curious as I've seen a few people say it but I've literally never experienced an issue that couldn't be solved by requesting the desktop version. Could you give an example of a broken site so I can check it out?
Re:A Computer for Everything: One Year of iPad Pro
by reustle on Sunday December 18, 2016 @01:59AM
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Upwork has been the biggest pain point for me so far. Try scrolling in the messages pages, for example. Also the padding/margins are totally wack so the text is glued up against the sides of the pages. Also enjoy the capcha every few minutes.
Another site is Facebook (non-mobile site). Not a wonderful experience.
Another one is my own little project, Amtrak.io. On my 13" macbook air the top 4 KPI boxes are in a row, but on the 12" ipad they are not, even though the resolutions are nearly the same.
It seems to be sites who use media queries, as I read that ios safari reports to the DOM that's its physical screen size is actually actual-screen-size/2 which is silly and annoying.