Community Wishlist Survey 2021/Reading/Automatic switch from mobile view to desktop view for desktops after following a mobile link

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Automatic switch from mobile view to desktop view for desktops after following a mobile link

  • Problem: In my humble opinion, it is most likely that people using PCs when following a link of format https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/... would probably want to switch back to desktop view to read it, since they used to it. Currently, users have to find the small button of desktop version in the very bottom of the page.
  • Who would benefit: I think most of the desktop users following mobile links.
  • Proposed solution: Detect the way of browsing and based on that switch to a corresponding view type.
  • More comments: Of course there might be people who want to use the mobile version on PC, but this function should be switchable then.
  • Phabricator tickets:
  • Proposer: Stanislav Kondratev Станислав Кондратьев (talk) 12:59, 20 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

  • This will be appreciated. I use Firefox both on mobile and desktop and Firefox Sync allows me to syncronize bookmarks. This is very helpful in my workflow but I end saving a lot of mobile versions to be later edited on desktop. When I start a session in my desktop, I have to manually update the links to make it more comfortable to read/edit. However, I see an issue with automatically redirecting to the desktop version. Since the url are different, the browser does treat changes as redirect and does not recognize the page as bookmarked (since the bookmark url is different). That means that once I'm finished I'd need to manually go to my bookmark list to remove the bookmark from my to do list. --FAR (talk) 09:49, 29 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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