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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | + | This comic is about how web sites design special versions of their pages | |
+ | optimized for viewing from mobile devices, and these pages require an | ||
+ | special App to be viewed. | ||
− | + | Usually, the mobile version of the web page is made separately | |
− | + | from the regular version, so it's | |
+ | often incomplete. | ||
+ | The app used to view it has also some | ||
+ | other serious usability problems (e.g. it can't be zoomed), | ||
+ | so it's usually better to just view the regular version | ||
+ | of the web site with a regular browser even when accessing | ||
+ | the web from a mobile device. | ||
− | + | In the comic, a mobile device user is trying to do just that: | |
+ | visit the regular version of web page through a regular browser. | ||
+ | However, the site keeps on insisting that the user | ||
+ | really should "download our app to visit | ||
+ | an incomplete version of our website | ||
+ | where you can't zoom". | ||
+ | If the user chooses "no", it isn't really a "no", but rather a | ||
+ | "no, but ask me again every time"; so this pop-up is going | ||
+ | to get really annoying very soon. | ||
− | + | In the title text, there's a reference to yet another very serious | |
+ | usability problem of the mobile version of web pages: | ||
+ | the only page one can really see is the home page, | ||
+ | and whenever the user tries to get anywhere else in the site, | ||
+ | the server loses track of the navigation and sends the user | ||
+ | back to the home page to start over again. | ||
+ | This is the same effect described in | ||
+ | [[869: Server Attention Span|comic 869]]<nowiki />. | ||
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | :[ | + | :[a popup window on top of a webpage displayed in a smartphone browser] |
− | :Want to visit an incomplete version of our website where you ''' | + | :Want to visit an incomplete version of our website where you '''can’t zoom'''? |
:'''Download our app!''' | :'''Download our app!''' | ||
:[OK] [No, but ask me again every time] | :[OK] [No, but ask me again every time] | ||
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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
[[Category:Comics with color]] | [[Category:Comics with color]] | ||
[[Category:Computers]] | [[Category:Computers]] |