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[–] 132 points 2 years ago (4 children)

99% of sites only need to know your screen aspect ratio and maybe available input devices, can't think of a good reason to share anything else

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  • [–] 74 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Knowing OS is useful for download links.

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  • [–] 46 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Oh no, they'd have to list more than one link,the horror!

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The vast majority of people would have no clue what to download.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    having 3 different ones solves that issue though? the user can figure out whic OS they're running pretty well imo.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I can tell you've never had to do T1 tech support before.

    It's kind of staggering just how illiterate users can be.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I doubt the fix is to make them need less literacy

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    When you are competing for customers not providing the illiterate morons of the world a simple UI leads to them going to your competitor which does.

    And unfortunately those illiterate morons outnumber every one else by a significant chunk.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago*

    That's a fair perspective, but most people strive for as few clicks between users and their targets as possible. Forcing a user to become semi-tech-competent by sending them on a fetch quest to figure out their os, while not an inherently bad thing, does work against this overall goal....

    Idk, it's like education vs service industry goal setting, that's all I'm trying to get at here lol

    Edit: plus, there's no guarantee that it will remain just the big 3 for forever. There was a time before Linux, maybe we'll see a time after windows.... Unlikely, but one can dream lol

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Since we have CSS what would be the purpose of the server knowing the aspect ratio?

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Ideally, to save bandwidth on both sides, the server would only want to serve you the JS and CSS you need. I'm not sure how frequently that optimization is made, however.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I’m a bit rusty on this, but I think you’d need to split your Sass/SCSS/etc before Webpack will perform tree-shaking or allow lazy-loading. I don’t think many devs wrote it that way: personally, I like my mobile rules beside my desktop ones, since my styling is component-wise.

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