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Take Control of Your Browser
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Take Control of Your Browser

by Robyn Weisman
November 2019
Beginner to intermediate
149 pages
3h 21m
English
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Work with Your Desktop and Mobile Browsers

Mobile browsers have come a long way since the early days of smartphones. They were rudimentary versions of their desktop siblings, which wasn’t so bad in itself. The ability to browse, let alone text and send email with a real keyboard—or really doing anything besides make a phone call on a tiny device—made up for the obvious deficiencies in doing so.

But after that initial magic wore off, browsing the web on my iPhone grew frustrating. Web designers didn’t know how to approach mobile browsers, and at first forced mobile users to access pages with weird unintuitive UIs, which used to drive me crazy. It wasn’t until web designers migrated en masse to responsive web design, which altered pages based ...

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ISBN: 9781947282360