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>rants about ux >not a responsive webpage

Many people, myself included, prefer pages which are not responsive. They require extra work to create, and a lot more work to get universally right. As an example, this page attempted to be responsive, but it loads like this one my phone: http://i.imgur.com/AJwaDWQ.png

Even then, all it usually saves a phone user is a double tap to zoom into the article.

+1. I knew what I was going to see before I clicked on your image, not because I browse a lot on mobile, but because I use a tiling WM with my browser at ~50% width, or around 900px.

That's enough to get most "responsive" websites showing with no left margin at all, which looks fucking awful. Worse still, half the time I get a hamburger menu and mobile-style navigation!

Apologies for not adding anything to the conversation, I just had to rant about another web anti-pattern :(.

Works fine on my phone, yours must be broken.

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