Comments on: Mobile Optimized Websites, More Harm Than Good? 7 Sites Compared

By: phil

phil — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:57:19 +0000

Is there any survey data or anything that shows if iPhone users prefer standard versions to the mobile version?

By: Keri Rae

Keri Rae — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 04:12:26 +0000

With the mobile versions, I have problems doing thing like registering or reseting my pass when I forget. There are lots if sites that don’t allow me to select the clasic webpage. Months ago I read about a code that you can enter at the end of the URL. It was something like ?mobile=no. Anybody know if that’s what to enter and if it works on most sites?

By: Ashley

Ashley — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:53:39 +0000

Yahoo’s mobile search won’t let me use quotes for some reason – the results show that they were just ignored. I then tried a search with quotes on the regular yahoo site, but it gave me the results in the mobile version again. Ugh! Am I just retarded or something? I just wanna use quotes Can’t I just read the regular yahoo search results?

By: homey

homey — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:07:14 +0000

I think this is a move by AT&T to preserve their bandwidth. A conspiracy!!! I like and want the option of the full site… not being forced to go to a dumbed down mobile site!

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:29:31 +0000

Check out trekkertime.com. It’s pretty sweet if you like traveling.

By: Traveler_M5

Traveler_M5 — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:35:15 +0000

I came upon on this write up while searching for a JB app that is able
to mask mobile safari as the browser type. I’m also annoyed by all
the mobile specific websites. If anybody happens to find the app and
repository please post the relevant information.

By: Traveler_M5

Traveler_M5 — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:33:58 +0000

I came upon on this write upwhile searching for a JB apps that is able
to mask the mobile safari as the browser type. I’m also annoyed by all
the mobile specific websites. If anybody happens to find the app and
repository please post.

By: MrT

MrT — Wed, 20 May 2009 18:33:00 +0000

Is there any way of stopping the browser defaulting to the web-version? http://itn.co.uk always goes to mobile version no matter what suffix you add to the address… dammit!

By: mayer

mayer — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:21:57 +0000

I think mobile optimized sites are a great idea. This idea of pulling and pinching your fingers on an iPhone is cool, but to use it constantly on a site with a lot of content is annoying. By creating mobile optimized sites, these companies are making me do less work to get to their content. It’s a usability issue that I’m glad they’ve addressed.

By: Orion

Orion — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:27:21 +0000

I hate to say it but this is yet another way Windows Mobile outshines the iPhone. There’s a setting available in Internet Explorer that makes the website see the phone browser as the desktop version so visitors aren’t pushed to the watered down mobile version of the site.

*sigh*