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From: David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: Slashdot on Samsung browser
Date: Wed, 21 May 2025 19:37:35 +0100
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In message <100l9je.lk8.1@ID-201911.user.individual.net>
          Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote:

>David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> wrote:
>> In message <100ind2.knc.1@ID-201911.user.individual.net>
>>           Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote:
>> 
>> >David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> wrote:
>> >> Can some of you with access to a Samsung browser please try
>> >> https://slashdot.org on a Samsung browser and some other browsers?
>> >> 
>> >> I use a Samsung S24 and a Galaxy Tab.  Until a few weeks ago, the
>> >> Samsung browsers used to render Slashdot like other browsers do.
>> >> Something changed; I don't know whether it's a Samsung browser update
>> >> or a site update, but it looks radically differnet now - and rather
>> >> harder to read, with tiny text.  Pinch to zoom allows the text to be
>> >> magnified, of course, but then the page has to be scrolled sideways
>> >> to read entire lines of text.
>> >> 
>> >> I'd just like to know why it is like it is.  A solution would be
>> >> even better!
>> >
>> >  Looks fine to me, both in (Samsung) 'Internet' and (Google) Chrome.
>> >
>> >  Note however that <https://slashdot.org> is redirected to the mobile
>> >site <https://m.slashdot.org>.
>> 
>> Aha - that's it, thank you, Frank.  For some reason my devices had
>> switched over to the mobile site.  Once they're back to non-mobile,
>> I can read the site on my mobiles.
>> 
>> Something's fundamentally wrong there, isn't it?
>
>  Are you sure you are (now) using the non-mobile site?

Yes.  There's a link at the bottom of the page which is either "Mobile"
(if you're *not* using the Mobile view) or "Non-mobile" (if you *are*
using the mobile view) which switches to the other view.  In Firefox
on my Linux box I can see the URL change.

>  Whether I enter slashdot.org or m.slashdot.org in the address bar, the
>end result always is 'https://m.slashdot.org' (checked by tapping on the
>address bar). So, I *cannot* use the non-mobile site, even if I want to.

See above.

>  OTOH, if (now) things for you, it's probably not worth (y)our while to
>figure out what is (not) happening.
>
>  OTTH, we are techies who want to know/understand, aren't we!? :-)

Perhaps the default view setting is stored in a cookie.  OTOH I've
told the site I don't accept cookies.  Dunno.

David