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Re:Just because I have a vertical screen doesn’t mean I’m on... by chungy on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @01:32PM (#26004715)
Isn't that still true in 2021? I haven't been particularly fond of the mobile view of most sites I come across. I force desktop-view on my phone fairly frequently just to get at features/pages I want.
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Re:Just because I have a vertical screen doesn’t mean I’m on... by jefftk on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @01:47PM (#26004895)
It is still maybe a little bit true, where some sites will make some things only possible to do on desktop, but when the iPhone came out mobile sites were generally incredibly minimal. They needed to be, to handle existing devices and browsers, which were much less powerful than the iPhone.
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Re:Just because I have a vertical screen doesn’t mean I’m on... by iso1631 on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @05:47AM (#26012472)
Mobile websites pre 2008 tended to be WML over WAP. If they existed they were terrible, probably created by an intern once and not updated, because very few people used mobile phones for internet access (other than say linking their PDA or notebook to their phone via IRDA)
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Re:Just because I have a vertical screen doesn’t mean I’m on... by madeofpalk on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @09:33PM (#26009899)
No, not at all in the sense as it was in 2008.
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