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I love it when

My phone's browser has a "show desktop version" button, but still gives me the mobile site -_-
Tried to look at desktop maplestory website on my phone, but my potato browser won't let me see it.

September 4, 2015

2 Comments • Newest first

Grim

I feel ya. Now that mobile and desktop sites are blending together it's becoming so much more common.

Reply September 4, 2015
MegaScience

All "Show Desktop Version" does is tell the website you're not on a mobile device, probably via useragent. Nexon didn't arrange the website like this. I haven't gotten to look into it, but I'd guess the layout just works on CSS checking screen dimensions. This is not effected by useragent, so it isn't going to change anything. They would need to fix the website on their end so layout is bound to the useragent of the device and not simple dimension checks. Should tell them to do this, actually...

[b]Edit:[/b] Yep, the website just uses fancy CSS to look mobile. If you scale your browser small/tall like a mobile device, you'll see the layout changes to match what you'd see on a phone. They have to adjust it on their end so the website sends a different page based on useragent, instead of adjusting based on screen dimensions.

Reply September 4, 2015 - edited