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Originally Posted by Teknikal
On most Android Browsers you can switch the user agent to iPad and get the iPad layout which is usually quite different, it's a trick I've used on the BBC iPlayer site when they tried to force Android users to use the "at the time" rubbish application with poor streams while the Apple devices still got the real streams directly from the page.
Either way though I'm not a fan of the mobile web and back in the gingerbread days my phones were as good at browsing as having a PC in my pocket, nowadays they have went backwards to either mobile layouts missing stuff all over the place or popup nags asking you to install the app.
I think Android browsing has gotten pretty terrible since they stopped flash, and the desktop situation would be exactly the same do we want a world where we have to download individual programs to browse a site properly on PC's like we have to now on phones.
Bowing out of the thread as I've made my opinion known.
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I always set the user agent to desktop because setting it to iPad used to give terrible results because iPad couldn't use flash. That is different now that more sites uses HTML5, but I got into that habit years ago.