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Re:New Racket Language Website by yomly on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @02:46PM (#24285810)
I'm biased, but I clicked through to Kotlin and it didn't have any mobile friendly media queries - whereas I like the look and feel of the racket page on my tiny android screen.
Re:New Racket Language Website by didibus on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @03:05PM (#24286012)
Same, Kotlin is a huge fail, if you can't get mobile friendly pages in 2020 it's a complete fail in my book.
Re:New Racket Language Website by kaycebasques on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @03:31PM (#24286300)
At first I was going to say "I agree… in 2020 there's no reason not to have a mobile-friendly docs site… but in my experience with documentation sites, not many people visit from mobile devices". However, I just checked web.dev and developers.google.com/web and our mobile traffic is non-trivial.
Re:New Racket Language Website by nkrisc on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @05:19PM (#24287398)
As a hobbyist and self-taught programmer I (pre-COVID) spent a lot of time reading documentation on my phone while commuting home from work.

I'm very pleased when documentation works well on a mobile device.

Re:New Racket Language Website by kaycebasques on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @08:23PM (#24288872)
What sites worked well for you? Anything in particular about how they worked well (or how other sites have not worked well)?
Re:New Racket Language Website by nkrisc on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @08:55PM (#24289076)
If have to go back and find examples, but there's not really much to it at all. A long as it's formatted nicely for reading on a small screen, that's a success.

Most recently I suppose would be the Rust book: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/

It's a delight on mobile. I've noticed many documentation sites she'd to be based some publishing platform that probably includes a good response mobile design, so it's a feature you can get "for free", yet not every docs site uses such a platform or just hasn't implemented their own responsive behavior.

I'll update if I can remember one I read recently that didn't have a great mobile experience.

It's really a very low bar.

Re:New Racket Language Website by discardable_dan on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @09:01PM (#24289127)
Oof, I didn't check it on mobile. That definitely counts for something for sure.