mail@silentd.dk wrote:I to agree that a platform specific page option would be neat to have.. To claim that its not needed is sortof narrowminded.
Would be good to hear some specific reasons WHY of course, and not just tagged as narrow-minded.
mail@silentd.dk wrote:Sometimes you want a specific view that looks better on horisontal vs vertical layout where your responsive design wont help.
Perhaps you can be more specific with your examples? Of course, you have no idea if a visitor is holding their phone in landscape mode or in horizontal mode, so not sure what that changes ...
mail@silentd.dk wrote:I loved the x2 platform.. and if the mobile gallery had been bugfree Id keep it
Bugs where? It would really help if you could actually report the bug you are referring to, because nothing has been reported yet that hasn't already been fixed.
mail@silentd.dk wrote:You could easily ad a IF specification to detect what kind of device your are opening the page in.
Yes we can detect devices. And if a page is accessed by mobile that is not
for mobile, you want it to be BLOCKED then?
- Do you consider iPad Pro (huge screen), or tablets in general, to be mobile?
- How do you suggest we detect a "mobile device" in javascript? What qualifies as a mobile device?
- Even if we detect on server side, it would require checking in PHP from a massive database of devices. PHP/backend does not read screen dimensions or "touch" ...
- Are you suggesting we output different outputs from the server based on device? That would be bad for SEO of course, since the engines see you serve different content (or no content) to some devices. It would also cause huge issues with the X3 caching mechanism (or any web sites caching mechanism).
I am open to suggestions here, but it would be good if you had some concrete examples of usage. I also hope you understand the challenges involved, and why we are not too excited about this feature which I personally consider to be backwards. Worst case scenario, the mobile user sees a page that is not mobile-optimized?