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Re:Websites Prep for Google’s ‘Mobilegeddon’ by ComputerGuru on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @11:22AM (#9414621)
I absolutely despise the fact that all sections are collapsed on load on mobile. That means "search in page" is broken and Wikipedia without search in page isn't Wikipedia at all.
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Re:Websites Prep for Google’s ‘Mobilegeddon’ by icebraining on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @11:35AM (#9414743)
That only needs an "expand all" button; apparently that's been denied, though: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T21924
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Re:Websites Prep for Google’s ‘Mobilegeddon’ by MatmaRex on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @06:12PM (#9417477)
That is an ancient bug report not related to the current mobile interface ("MobileFrontend"). I think it predates that by a year or two.
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Re:Websites Prep for Google’s ‘Mobilegeddon’ by speleding on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @02:47PM (#9416108)
You have "search in page" on your mobile browser? (My iPhone doesn't have that!)
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Re:Websites Prep for Google’s ‘Mobilegeddon’ by ComputerGuru on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @02:48PM (#9416121)
It's iPhone's number 1 unknown feature. I've been using computers since I was two and it took me more than a year to find this: just type in the search term in the safari search bar, then scroll down in the autocomplete results (without hitting go or enter). It'll come up after autocomplete and history/bookmark matches - and it's been there since at least iOS 6.

Worst. UX. Ever.

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Re:Websites Prep for Google’s ‘Mobilegeddon’ by lstamour on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @04:15PM (#9416732)
Before this, when iOS had separate search and URL boxes, typing in the Google search box would offer a prompt to search in the page since ... maybe v3 was it? Hence why that moved to the URL box when the boxes merged. Yes, it sucks.
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Re:Websites Prep for Google’s ‘Mobilegeddon’ by fatboy on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @03:48PM (#9416569)
The other one in a similar vein is pulling the search results down (before typing anything) to get 'Request Desktop Site'. It took a while before I stopped having to pause to remember where that was each time I wanted it.
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Re:Websites Prep for Google’s ‘Mobilegeddon’ by JTon on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @03:30PM (#9416451)
Well I'll be damned.
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Re:Websites Prep for Google’s ‘Mobilegeddon’ by DanBC on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @02:48PM (#9416118)
Chrome on iOS has in the burger menu "Find in Page". That burger menu scrolls.
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Re:Websites Prep for Google’s ‘Mobilegeddon’ by wishinghand on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @08:07PM (#9417928)
It does if you use the Chrome browser.
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Re:Websites Prep for Google’s ‘Mobilegeddon’ by mjklin on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @11:49PM (#9418578)
Also you can't view the article's categories. You need desktop view for that.
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