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How to View the Desktop Version of a Website on Your iPhone and iPad
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Those are the types of websites I only visit once and never again.
This almost never works. Not because there's anything wrong with Safari, but because website creators are too stupid to use the correct signals to choose between desktop and mobile layout. They mostly just look at the viewport size and say 'eh, **** it.' I wish 'request desktop view' would alter that to look like a desktop.
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I would agree with you when the mobile site is done properly. But too often it's done by a moron chimpanzee and is either outright broken or lacks all of the functionality of the desktop site. And 99 times out of 100 those are the sites where "request desktop view" doesn't work.
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I would agree with you when the mobile site is done properly. But too often it's done by a moron chimpanzee and is either outright broken or lacks all of the functionality of the desktop site. And 99 times out of 100 those are the sites where "request desktop view" doesn't work.
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If everybody followed the "current trend", that might be a useful observation. But there are zillions of websites that are locked into what the "current trend" was years ago -- and will never ever be updated. Flash has been obsolete tech for years -- it never ever ran on iOS -- but there are still gobs of websites that use Flash to run.
Doubtful.
When exactly do you think that 99.99% of webpages will have the "responsive web design" feature you note above? Flash is still being used on about 5% of websites today (per a metric earlier this year) -- even though there has been no legitimate reason to use it for years!
When exactly do you think it would be reasonable to remove? Why?
Your original comment made little sense; this clarification also makes little sense.
iOS devices don't support Flash, so using it as an example kind of proves my point.
Use this app - https://itunes.apple.com/es/app/perfect-browser/id1360915927?l=en&mt=8 , very good
That’s why it’s useful to post about it today... A lot of people don’t know it exists.
But I thought only "power users" need to know / deserve to know about functions that have been hidden behind things like long-pressing a button or holding Option key while clicking on a menu.
Even with that then at least some of the "power users" still need to find out about something like that from somewhere.
Same here. I hate it. I’ve had to download a browser that fools the sites into thinking I’m on a desktop. I really hate sites that force you to use their stupid mobile version.
If the only thing this setting does is change the user agent the it's pretty much worthless these days. Most websites don't care about the user agent, but the rendered screen size. The only way to make this work is to set both the user agent to os x and the rendered width to something higher than 1200px.
On a high PPI LCD screen like on the Plus series of phones full web sites are often beautiful.
I agree they look pretty bad on a low quality screen like the iPhone XR.
Somehow that's not really what makes that much of a difference for vast majority.
Nope. It shows the opposite. Flash is still being used on about 5% of websites today -- even though such webpages are completely useless on essentially all mobile devices.
You told us
You failed to answer my question: how long do you think until 99.99% of websites follow your claimed "current trend" for responsive web design? As long as a significant number of websites lack that functionality, this Safari function will be awfully useful. The huge number of sites that still have Flash underscores how slowly some websites change.
Please answer my question: how long until 99% of websites have a responsive design?
I’ve known about it for a while but just last night was telling my wife about it. Although I’m sure I’ve told her before. Anyway, occasionally I find other things that you can long press. For instance if you have the flashlight in your control center you can long press to get different flashlight levels.
That means you run across a 'responsive website'.
The easiest way to tell whether a website is responsive is to resize the browser window on a desktop. If the content changes, then it's a responsive website.
When a website is responsive, even if you 'request desktop version', the phone still can't show the desktop version because the layout of the website is determined by the screen resolution.
(original image link: https://searchengineland.com/figz/wp-content/seloads/2018/04/responsive-design.gif)
The 'request desktop version' only works on websites that actually provide 2 versions (one desktop, one mobile).
