Ask Slashdot: Why Do Mobile Versions of Websites Suck?

Posted by Unknown on Monday December 23, 2013 @01:10PM from the second-system dept.

First time accepted submitter Kelbear writes "As user traffic over mobile devices grows in leaps and bounds, it's surprising to me as a layman that so many companies still have crippled and broken mobile pages in late 2013. There must be justifiable reasons for this, so: Fellow Slashdotters, can you please share the obstacles you've seen in your own companies that have delayed or defeated efforts to develop competent mobile sites? Are the issues in obtaining or maintaining compatibility driven by platform owners like Apple and Google?"

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Re: Slashdot being a prime example of bad by nobuddy · 2013-12-27 06:47 · Score: 1, Troll

Generally, pages detect your device is mobile and redirect it before the main page even loads. your only choice is the mobile version, even though it sucks and the real version works perfectly fine in your mobile device. And to add insult to injury they generally try to force you to load an app for their site (which is just a browser that will only load their site anyway) every time a significant event happens- such as scrolling.