Mobile Websites

[dacads]

Forget mobile even some of the desktop ones aren't up to scratch

 

[MikeTheNative]

I can't remember what website it was but it kept saying please use the app instead. Clicked the link and it was IOS only... i was on andriod.

 

[Jamesyboyjim]

The idea behind mobile friendly sites is a good one, large thumb friendly links that are clear and can easily be read on the go, sadly, a lot of times you have to access the full site to find the right information, if they could get the content up to scratch mobile sites would still be a good idea, even in the days of large screen fast phablets.

 

[Nitefly]

And now OCUK keeps forwarding me to its mobile site forums!!! It is the end of the world after all.

I don't want to have to scroll all the way to the bottom to get to the desktop site, it's dreadful - any tips?? Thanks!

 

[Techno_Viking]

Install Chrome > go to settings or click the three dots > Enable 'go to desktop site'.

 

[Lopéz]

TripAdvisor has to be the worst. Literally every single page you load "Would you prefer to view this in our App?"

NO

NO

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

[chroniclard]

Mobile/responsive web sites are hardly redundant. Just a lot of badly designed ones.

 

[holymonk]

For £6000 this is the latest revision of my father in laws mobile friendly business website... www.hcssafety.co.uk

Its shocking all round really.

 

[LeeUK]

I hate it when some sites still think Internet Explorer is the fashion and force you onto a ****** dumbed down site if you use Chrome, like SSE user account for example.

 

[LeeUK]

For £6000 this is the latest revision of my father in laws mobile friendly business website... www.hcssafety.co.uk

Its shocking all round really.

I hate sites these days that have the constantly scroll down feature along with bits of the site that follow you down like the top banner. Everywhere is doing it.

 

[mrk]

There is an easy solution.

 

[Glaucus]

are absolutely terriable. Is there even one good one.

Same as this site I wouldn't mind but either something to do with this site or Firefox browser keeps forgetting that I want the desktop version.

And there's plenty like eBay, amazon etc that the apps are equally terriable.

 

[mrk]

The Amazon app is actually perfectly fine.

The eBay one on the other hand is still stuck in a timezone somewhere around 2005.

 

[Freefaller]

I just don't bother and go to the site when I get home. Unless I'm just after info.

 

[G-MAN2004]

Mobile versions of betting sites are usually decent.

 

[Amp34]

Safari - show desktop site

Unfortunately that doesn't usually work with responsive websites, which base their content layout on screen size.

Responsive sites are the spawn of the devil, it's not 1999 any more. My screen is 4.3", I can deal with more than four words on a page and I can definitely deal with all the options available in menus!

The only ones that are any good are ones you just want to usually glance at for some quick info, such as banking, where the system works reasonably well unless you want to do something off menu...

 

[Amp34]

And that website is a good example of a responsive site that doesn't provide the full website when you request the desktop site...

For £6000 this is the latest revision of my father in laws mobile friendly business website... www.hcssafety.co.uk

Its shocking all round really.

It also fails the "doesn't have a top banner taking up a third of the screen when in landscape mode" test.

Why have a huge (mostly empty) banner that takes up half the frigging page whenever you want to browse in landscape? It's almost like the developer is trying to punish you for daring to try and read the page like you're on a computer.

 

[Rroff]

2560x1440 res on my phone and the browser auto zooms on links if there are a lot of things in the area you are trying to touch - makes most desktop sites fully usable.