Re:Firefox Preview adds support for recommended extensions, ...
by zeveb on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @09:37AM
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> the Web is simply not made for small devices with touchscreens
I think that you are 100% incorrect: the Web (i.e., HTML) is perfect for small devices with touchscreens. As asdff notes, late-90s websites would work perfectly on a mobile device. It's all the cruft we have spent the past twenty years polluting the Web and our browsers with that doesn't work so well in a mobile context.
A mobile phone is perfectly capable of displaying images and text. HTML is perfectly capable of displaying images and text in a device-independent fashion: that was its raison d'etre, as I recall.
I think where we went wrong was assuming that browser windows would be maximised on a desktop screen. That, and JavaScript.
I think that you are 100% incorrect: the Web (i.e., HTML) is perfect for small devices with touchscreens. As asdff notes, late-90s websites would work perfectly on a mobile device. It's all the cruft we have spent the past twenty years polluting the Web and our browsers with that doesn't work so well in a mobile context.
A mobile phone is perfectly capable of displaying images and text. HTML is perfectly capable of displaying images and text in a device-independent fashion: that was its raison d'etre, as I recall.
I think where we went wrong was assuming that browser windows would be maximised on a desktop screen. That, and JavaScript.