Re:The Scroll Up Bar
by SoftwareMaven on Monday May 26, 2014 @11:00AM
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What's worse is some sites that do this can't seem to differentiate between iPads and iPhones and seem to use percentages everywhere in their CSS. As a result, you get a huge header (which feels larger in landscape orientation).
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I've had helpful 'popups' on mobile sites that I couldn't close because the close button was perpetually out of screen, as they were not designed for the small screen. To my surprise, I've seen this on a number of big sites.
It baffles me that nobody ever noticed this bug, but on the other hand I can see how this would happen. The developers probably never noticed because they already had the cookie that prevents the popup from showing. Still...
Re:The Scroll Up Bar
by tambourmajor on Monday May 26, 2014 @12:25PM
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Another big annoyance is when the mobile mode is solely based on the user agent string and there is no way to deactivate it other than changing the user agent (for example Google Search). It’s almost as if no Google employee has a tablet device. I would be genuinely interested in seeing behind the curtains of decisions like this one.