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Re:Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Wikipedia by jfrunyon on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @03:46PM (#29477997)
en.m. is NOT a seperate resource from en.. It is the SAME resource because it has the SAME content and because editing the content on EITHER changes the content on the other. It is a different PRESENTATION of the content, which should be served at the same URL. This is WHY HTTP has such headers as Vary and Accept.

If en.m. is asking for the mobile version, then en. is asking for the desktop version, yes? So why does en. redirect to en.m. on mobile?

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Re:Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Wikipedia by thaumasiotes on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @07:29PM (#29480007)
So that mobile users following existing wikipedia links can view mobile pages instead.

It reflects the fact that standard pages existed before mobile pages did.

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Re:Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Wikipedia by dkonofalski on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @10:00PM (#29480819)
That's not true. There are functional differences between the en.m and the en. versions.
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Re:Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Wikipedia by jfrunyon on Friday December 10, 2021 @03:16PM (#29514957)
Okay, and? Again, they both display the same content, and edits made to either one affect the other. I don't know why you think it's relevant that there are (supposedly) "functional differences", sockpuppet.
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Re:Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Wikipedia by dkonofalski on Monday December 13, 2021 @11:13AM (#29540906)
Sockpuppet? And who exactly would I be sockpuppeting for? Big Wiki?

It's relevant that there are functional differences because those are not presentational differences. HTML is for content, CSS is for presentation. If the HTML is different, then it's a different resource and, therefore, gets a different resource locator (URL).

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