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by ErroneousBosh 2 days ago
> The main drawback with the page's unstyled design is that the page is not mobile friendly.

Then fix mobile browsers to display it correctly.

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They’re already fixed, just add the meta tag if you give the slightest semblance of a shit. Otherwise don’t and people may be less inclined to engage with your content on their phone.
Add what in a meta tag?

Why should web developers change their content to work on defective browsers?

Exactly, all the meta tag does is tell mobile browsers to follow the standard as written before they existed. They should just do that by default.
Because it wouldn’t work for every website and the web almost never breaks backward compatibility.
So if I have a block of totally unstyled HTML, why wouldn't a phone browser just display it in the most sensible way possible?