This tendency for web designers to only test against iOS and Android, the so called “Webkit Monoculture”<\/a>, is putting other browser vendors and their users in a real bind. It’s pushing Opera<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Mozilla<\/a>\u00a0toward giving their browsers -webkit- CSS prefix support, and in the case of Mozilla,\u00a0changing user agent strings to impersonate Safari. \u00a0Many in the web design community design community whom I respect think this will do more harm than good. As a user I’m don’t know who’s right, I just want sites to work no matter which platform and browser I’m using.<\/p>\n
Seeking Alpha is a big US based stock market analysis and financial site. I recently discovered that it has a mobile formatted layout which it seems to only serve to Android and iOS devices. In Safari, the Android default browser and Android Chrome, the mobile layout is attractive and seems user friendly, although scrolling in both Android browsers feels a bit laggy. On other mobile platforms like bada, Symbian, S40 and WebOS, Seeking Alpha delivers its desktop layout, which is … Continue reading