[pcurve]

There is a lot of technology for technology sake to be found in American web sites.

My favorite counter example is sankei news site. http://www.sankei.com/

All their pages end in .html.

Do view source and vast majority if byte is used for actual text content, rather than javascript and markups.

Mobile friendly too, but you wouldn't know it because they disabled responsive view unless it's visited from an actual phone. No premature mobile view with hamburger kicking in when viewing it on desktop.

Comparison of View source between two sites is quite amusing.

view-source:http://www.sankei.com/smp/

view-source:https://mobile.nytimes.com/

[eropple]

> but you wouldn't know it because they disabled responsive view unless it's visited from an actual phone. No premature mobile view with hamburger kicking in when viewing it on desktop

Bug, not feature. If I'm viewing a site in a narrow window, I expect it to collapse responsively. That site doesn't.

[pcurve]

I can assure you it's not a bug. Many Asian sites have fixed width on desktop. They do not make their sites with 4-5 different media query break points.

Personally I prefer this because information is always in the same place regardless of browser size. I don't have to worry about it moving around or hiding.

[eropple]

Fine--misfeature. Bug in the spec. Having to squint and scroll sideways and zoom is awful user-facing behavior.

[fiatjaf]

GitHub is bugged, by your criteria.

[eropple]

Yup! GitHub's wrong too. We have media queries for a reason--because user agent sniffing and "mobile sites" leads to incorrect results. This is one.

[TylerE]

> All their pages end in .html.

Do you not understand how URL rewriting works?