On Mon, 6 Feb 2012, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
On 2/6/12 11:42 AM, James Graham wrote:
Sure. I'm not entirely sure how sympathetic I am to the need to produce
"reduced-functionality" pages... The examples I've encountered have mostly
been in one of three buckets:
1) "Why isn't the desktop version just like this vastly better mobile one?"
2) "The mobile version has a completely different workflow necessitating a
different url structure, not just different images and CSS"
3) "We'll randomly lock you out of features even though your browser and
device can handle them just fine"
The example I had in mind was one of our developers who was hacking
an internal tool so that he could use it efficiently on his phone.
AFAICT his requirements were:
1) Same URL structure as the main site
2) Less (only citical) information on each screen
3) No looking up / transfering information that would later be thrown away
4) Fast => No extra round trip to report device properties
AFAIK he finally decided to UA sniff Opera mobile. Which is pretty sucky
even for an intranet app. But I didn't really have a better story to
offer him. It would be nice to address this kind of use case somehow.
