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by kclay 2895 days ago
Can someone explain why the chrome browser simulator is so bad. I recently had to do some web work, normally don't deal with HTML . Anyways I tried to use the emulate view to test against iOS devices. Had QA test on a real device and it was all wrong. Ended up just getting a virtualbox of osx up to run the stimulator.

Normally it isn't a problem using it but trying to line up slanted designs with pixel perfect placement wasnt working out at all.
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carelesswhisper 2895 days ago
Ran into this recently, there’s a meta tag you have to set for it to properly target mobile and not just scale it down https://developers.google.com/web/tools/lighthouse/audits/ha...
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LiquidFlux 2895 days ago
My understanding is that Chrome emulates viewports and little more, it doesn't support different rendering engines and such.

You should use it to understand what various mobile devices might look like, great for prototyping, but it doesn't replace physical or truly virtualised devices ( as a service / VMs ) for testing.

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