Wikimedia sunsets separate mobile domains
(www.mediawiki.org)
from Pro@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world on 09 Sep 23:58
https://programming.dev/post/37175962
from Pro@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world on 09 Sep 23:58
https://programming.dev/post/37175962
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/37175444
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Does this mean they’ll finally stop giving the fucking mobile site on desktop just because someone couldn’t edit out the “m.” from the link?
It’s a subtle thing, but I really appreciate that when sharing a link from Safari on iOS it puts the address on the clipboard without the “m.” automatically, so I don’t have to edit it out.
I mean, yeah… On the other hand it shouldn’t really edit a link you want to share, should it?
It might be related to the setting to remove tracking information from shared links? I’ve appreciated not having to manually take that crap off.
I always remove the ugly suffix en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashanti?wprov=sfla1
What is it for anyhow?
And what about the unwieldy suffix Facebook adds? That must be for tracking reasons but why is it so loooooooooong? Surely a unique identifier wouldn’t require many characters. Is it executable code?
I don’t know why Facebook puts so much junk in the links, but there’s a setting for Safari to remove that automatically.
I’m pretty sure Firefox does that as well. It’s a pretty standard thing although it is annoying when you’re trying to test something and you actually want all the extra bits.
Is that someone, yourself?
off topic but dandelion sprout's redirector does this https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/master/Dandelion%20Sprout-s%20Redirector%20Assistant%20List/DandelionSproutRedirectorList.json
Sincere question: Why was there a separate mobile domain in the first place?
That was pretty standard for a while in web design - traditional "desktop" sites need a radically different layout when viewed from a smartphone, so from the dev side you'd check the size of the screen & redirect the user to the right subdomain for their device.
Nowadays it's not really necessary.
I think they used separate style sheets. Going way back in time, to the early days of smartphones and back when non-smartphones had mobile web browsers, most websites would serve either a separate style sheet that gave a simplified layout for tiny screens or even an entirely different, simplified page. Early adopters to mobile browsing tended to hang on to that separation much longer than newer sites that took advantage of CSS that could adapt to the screen size.
Yeah, this is a remnant of Wikipedia supporting mobile devices really early.
Honestly I generally prefer the desktop sites and just zooming in than mobile sites that tend to badly fit everything on the screen.
Most mobile browsers will let you force desktop mode. So if you want to you can do that.
McDonald’s mobile website is especially bad with folding phones (first world problems) so I have it constantly enabled for that site.
Yeah and I do but it often doesn’t respect the setting.
A simpler layout and usually a more lightweight page in general because mobile data was slow and expensive back then.
If someone wanted people to actually use their site on the go, they had to make it load quickly and not cost $5 worth of data doing it.
That’s a good point; modern pages would choke our old 2G/3G plans!
I oppose their not changing the speed of light.
What took them so long?
Hallelujah!
Thank gord
m.thank gord
Oh have they finally noticed that CSS has media queries? That’s pretty impressive, it only took them about 15 years.