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rowan · 03-25-2013, 03:22 PM

I have a smartphone with a generous sized screen, yet I often end up viewing plain mobile pages that feature gigantic text (seriously... tumblr mobile shows only 4-5 words per line, and this is on a Galaxy Note II!) I've set up my proxy/cache at home to lie about the user-agent so that I don't get redirected, but when I'm not home I don't have that luxury.

A 301/302 redirect to a mobile version - rather than simply displaying differently formatted content under the same URL - is also stupid, because it means that people share m.example.com links, which breaks those of us using desktop browsers.

People need to start doing something more sophisticated than "if the user-agent is in this list, redirect to mobile version." It's 2013, we're no longer on 20x4 dot matrix WAP screens.

03-25-2013, 03:22 PM
rowan Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 17,393	I have a smartphone with a generous sized screen, yet I often end up viewing plain mobile pages that feature gigantic text (seriously... tumblr mobile shows only 4-5 words per line, and this is on a Galaxy Note II!) I've set up my proxy/cache at home to lie about the user-agent so that I don't get redirected, but when I'm not home I don't have that luxury. A 301/302 redirect to a mobile version - rather than simply displaying differently formatted content under the same URL - is also stupid, because it means that people share m.example.com links, which breaks those of us using desktop browsers. People need to start doing something more sophisticated than "if the user-agent is in this list, redirect to mobile version." It's 2013, we're no longer on 20x4 dot matrix WAP screens.