• Suggestions for landscape mobile view
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Here's what portrait view looks like. It looks great: https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/596/8a3f2e7c-83da-4d2a-a261-0a5656c7dbc4/Screenshot_20180528-103043.png Now here's what landscape is like: https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/596/e382a109-ac62-4689-aaac-67fdde4ca78f/download431a8e00_ed_2f0_2fPictures_2fScreenshots_2fScreenshot_20180528-103043.png You catch my drift? I'm exaggerating with the image above, but on portrait I can see 8 threads, and on landscape I can see 4. I've lost 50% of screen real estate. On oldpunch, it used to be the opposite, where landscape looks like this: https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/596/6776d35d-2d10-44b6-9d0c-77674b4adadb/Screenshot_20180528-104040.png and portrait looks like this: https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/596/b8958e3b-c2e3-4e4d-a4ef-e1f4c15decff/Screenshot_20180528-104050.png I can see 8 threads in landscape, which was perfectly usable without zooming by the way, and I can see 25 threads in portrait. I've tripled my screen real estate! It's a bit small though. So, let's compromise. Don't zoom the landscape view in to fit the portrait layout. Zoom the landscape out to match the portrait layout. You can use the extra horizontal space to include user cards and avatars, and other information available to desktop users that you choose to hide from mobile users (make it look nice, right now it looks like those simplified HTML pages Google serves you when you try to browse on a flip phone). And get rid of the bottom bar. It makes writing posts a pain in the ass: https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/596/d3ccb512-c6e4-44d1-8185-675ed9f9e2e0/Screenshot_20180528-105758.png
From what I know of my very mundane knowledge of mobile web development. Making a page to fit the mobile format is a major pain in the ass, but it would be nice to have mobile friendly page with landscape support.
Piledrived the nail right on the head there.
It would be nice to have a mobile friendly FP in general.
Honestly it would be nice to completely disable the mobile layout in landscape mode. All I want is "request desktop site", but zoomed in a little bit.
Generally it is "recommended" that you don't target orientations or devices specifically, but instead target sizes. those recommendations are forced into css selectors, so there's no simple way of detecting if you're actually on a mobile device or not. kinda sucks for exactly these reasons - though it would undoubtedly be misused if something like a ":mobile" selector existed.
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