Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by jakub_g 245 days ago
On Android at least, you can toggle "desktop view" in any browser. The UX is crap on some websites, but you can make things work enough to not need the app.

For example I use Opera to browse `facebook.com/messages`. It's a bad UX for writing (somehow it "swallows" some of the written text when you type too fast, or select text and try to overwrite it), but this makes me use it less. Won't ever install FB app on my phone.
1 comments
Andrex 245 days ago
For the first time ever I ran into a web app blocking Desktop Mode on Chrome for Android somehow. (ChowNow) I've seen sites detect it but issue a warning, but this was a full functionality-block.

I was literally using it fine one day, then the next they started saying I need to use the desktop website for menu editing as it's "more optimized."

Dinguses, if I'm manually turning on Desktop Mode I know it's not gonna be "optimized." Just let me get my menu edits pushed goddamnit!

link
joquarky 244 days ago
That sounds like an accessibility issue.

Especially if viewport scaling is disabled.

People with vision impairments need to be able to zoom.

link