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On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 03:35:48PM +0100, Mick wrote |
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> PS. I hope someone will show them the door if they suggest designing |
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> a new Flash based web interface ... |
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Especially true given that Ipads/Iphones do not support Flash. Another |
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major problem is websites that parse the user agent, and assume that any |
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browser they don't recognize is a mobile device. It's a standing joke |
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amongst geeks... see https://xkcd.com/869/ and https://xkcd.com/1174/ |
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Back in the day when "smartphones" only had 320x240 pixel screens, a |
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separate mobile site may have been necessary. But not today with |
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pinch+zoom and smartphones/tablets with higher pixel counts than many |
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notebooks. And with the idiots at Mozilla going off the deep end, there |
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are multiple forks of Firefox out there (Seamonkey, Palemoon, etc), by |
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people who are disgusted with Firefox's insanity. A company that kicks |
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those browsers off their main website to a mobile site, or demands they |
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download an "app", will lose customers. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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