itgrrl :donor:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://freeradical.zone/@tek" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>tek</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/TLDR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TLDR</span></a> my brain-drippings generated by your toot, feel free to skip 🙃</p><p>this is very interesting… 🤔 </p><p>my instinctive response to this (as a long-ago web dev but casual keeper-upper with stuff) was, “don’t you get what you need from <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/UserAgent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UserAgent</span></a> strings any more?” so I went (a short way) down a rabbit hole… 🕵️♀️</p><p>despite recent changes by Google to restrict info leakage by Chrome user agents (🎉🎉🎉 yay <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a>^), it seems like they still give plenty of info about devices that can be used to put them into at least buckets of “phone”, “tablet”, and “desktop”^^ (happy to be corrected, of course 🙃)</p><p>do we really need websites tailored to the pixel rather than a few buckets based on approximate sizes, with layouts to match those sizes using percentage-based definitions for elements / containers? 🤔 is that not sufficient for decent responsive / adaptive design any more? 🤔 is the <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/UX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UX</span></a> *actually* significantly better using exact-pixel tailoring? 🤔 do sites see significantly higher bounce rates or lower sales conversion or whatever metric they care about if we approximate with well-thought-out layouts? 🤔</p><p>[rant]what I mostly see these days (that I loathe) is web devs doing “mobile only” rather than “mobile first” layouts that are ridiculously large & shouty on desktops and provide almost no detail on anything ‘coz they sell to assume that no one will ever look at the site on a non-mobile device… 🫠[/rant]</p><p>if a site offers me something that fits well enough into “mobile” or “desktop”^^^ (and *actually* allows me to switch between them if I explicitly request it to do so), AND gives me an on-page way to increase / decrease text size without altering other elements, I’m usually very happy (rant about WhyTF every mobile browser doesn’t bake per-site text size controls into their <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/UI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UI</span></a> left for another day 🤪)<br> <br> <br> <br>^ well, more like “privacy” since you can still pull all the details from headers or via JS so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ <br> <br>^^ e.g. data from <a href="https://www.useragents.me/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">useragents.me/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br> <br>^^^ bonus points for offering “tablet” as well</p>