Thank you for your comments, Chris, which clearly contain a great
deal of sense. Let me, if I may, address just one part of what
you say, in terms of what I create ("create", in terms of "create
web sites", that is) --The problem that "mobile-first" is trying to solve is an issue not simply one of making content "flow" properly. Mobile devices have so much less screen space as to force a complete re-think of what the content is. Simply re-flowing vast amounts of content onto a small space makes for a terrible user experience. You need to re-design so that you provide only the essential content on a mobile device, and as you scale up, you add optional content.
I develop two sorts of site -- those that convey information, and those that set out to exploit web functionality to the full in order to achieve on-screen something that might otherwise require using a full GUI toolkit in order to accomplish. The first are pure text. They say what needs to be said and no more. I imagine that they will render satisfactorily on any tablet or mobile device, but lacking both I have never tested them against such a benchmark. The second (of which an example can be seen at the link below) typically require a screen resolution of at least 1152 x 864 in order to display satisfactorily (unless the visitor has good eyesight and can use negative page zoom in order to see more). They are not intended to be usable on tablets or similar, neither can I envisage any satisfactory way of making them render satisfactorily on such devices (nor can I envisage how to make the manuscript content accessible to blind and partially sighted users, which I regard as a far more important issue, and one that I would dearly love to be able to address). Since I don't create sites that seek to merge these two (in other words, my sites are quite unlike the vast majority of sites that one experiences today), I am not convinced that the first need to be made more mobile-friendly or that it would be possible to make the second more mobile-friendly. Typical text site : http://marden-prg.org.uk/Typical graphic-dependent high-resolution site : http://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/Hellenic-Institute/Research/Etheridge/
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