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  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    It shouldn’t really be just millennials who do this, and there’s a simple reason for it. Just about every web developer uses a desktop for development work, so most of their testing is done in a desktop browser. So mobile-only bugs do slip through the cracks more often, I find. imo that is the reason that to this day, a lot of bugs get overlooked on mobile.

    I feel like food ordering services are always the worst culprits for some reason. Many times I have tried to order food on my phone only to get stuck in a login loop or some other bug that makes it impossible. Open the same service up on my desktop and it works perfectly first try

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      3 months ago

      Notably modern browsers can simulate phones, tablets, TVs, really all kinds of screens. I personally use that mode a lot to test the mobile variant, but nearly all bugs are purely CSS-related (at least in my experience) when it comes to a mobile-desktop discrepancy. Either way, for food delivery and stuff like that I’d really expect the devs to develop primarily for mobile, so that’s surprising to hear.

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        3 months ago

        Yeah I refuse to debug other people’s sites lol so I don’t know what’s going on precisely but I’ve noticed this a few times.

        We build things as mobile first in my shop but it’s really hard to test everything on a real device on every build. I suspect these kinds of bugs are usually a “this small change should work the same everywhere” but doesn’t for various reasons.

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          3 months ago

          Oh yeah, that stuff is a pain and automated tests can only go so far. Also I know for me personally I do tend to neglect mobile a little just because I much prefer designing and developing for larger screens, and I doubt I’m the only one, so on mobile more will slip through the cracks when it comes to these tiny changes.