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You can add an html meta tag that would solve the mobile issues you're describing, without CSS.
If you set initial-scale=1, isn't width=device-width redundant?
too lazy to give you definitive answer, but:
[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/css-device-adapt-1/
[2] https://benfrain.com/understanding-the-viewport-meta-tag-and...
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Haha. But is it? I'm having a very hard time reading this on a phone. The text is too small and when I zoom in (unlike on desktop) it doesn't reflow. I don't understand this "no css is best css" trope.. this is unusable on mobile. (Explicit note of the obvious which should go without saying: not a criticism of the page. Just about this HN meme of revering css-less pages. )
At least you get to zoom in, which is not true with most of the mobile websites these days.
Am I the only one to find it a little sad that "oh wow, ${some.website} is still online!" is such a common sentiment? It seems to me that the default should have been for content to persist, and the surprising events should have been content that disappears. I mean, 1997 is not even twenty years. Nobody expresses surprise that, say, Fight Club is still available to watch - but on the web we seem to expect near-total…
I agree it's a shame that static content is more ephemeral than it should be, but I also worry about dynamic content and how the whole experience of using the web isn't snapshot-able. For instance, I can't really go back and browse the front page of Reddit, or look at Google News or just search the Internet of ten years ago. In fifty years, it's going to be really hard to explain to people who weren't there what it w…
Wow, this website in particular was extremely formative for me. I was 10 in '97 and I was so excited about Pathfinder. I remember asking my librarian about it, who showed me how to use the library computers to access "the Internet" and look up the images it sent back. I think this was the first time I really appreciated the power of the web, and I've never looked back. Almost got a little emotional seeing this page s…
Wow, this website in particular was extremely formative for me. I was 10 in '97 and I was so excited about Pathfinder. I remember asking my librarian about it, who showed me how to use the library computers to access "the Internet" and look up the images it sent back. I think this was the first time I really appreciated the power of the web, and I've never looked back. Almost got a little emotional seeing this page s…
I worked at JPL at the time, and the mission was a pretty big deal there too. TV trucks in the parking lot for days. A long line outside to get your Hot Wheels toy rover. (I guess that would've gone under the employee merchandise link on this page, which is broken now.)
That Page must have been really expensive. Fully responsive, seemingly tested on iPad and iPhone back when mobile browser penetration was much lower compared to now. Incredible loading times, maybe they used a lot of asset preprocessing/compressing to make the page load that fast. One thing that bothers me is that there is no Google Analytics. Without good tracking they might not be able to optimise conversion rates…
Too bad it's not running on the original webserver: Trying 54.230.79.254... Connected to d2cj35nmzi9erd.cloudfront.net. Escape character is '^]'. HEAD / HTTP/1.0 HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request Server: CloudFront Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2016 18:34:50 GMT Content-Type: text/html Content-Length: 551 Connection: close X-Cache: Error from cloudfront Via: 1.1 5a907351331cc8f5ed11d0a2d0f249d6.cloudfront.net (CloudFront) X-Amz-Cf-Id: FJ…
Yeah, they are on AmasonS3; I have just tested it myself: curl -vI mars.nasa.gov * Rebuilt URL to: mars.nasa.gov/ * Trying 52.222.171.112... * Connected to mars.nasa.gov (52.222.171.112) port 80 (#0) > HEAD / HTTP/1.1 > Host: mars.nasa.gov > User-Agent: curl/7.50.1 > Accept: */* >
Wow, this website in particular was extremely formative for me. I was 10 in '97 and I was so excited about Pathfinder. I remember asking my librarian about it, who showed me how to use the library computers to access "the Internet" and look up the images it sent back. I think this was the first time I really appreciated the power of the web, and I've never looked back. Almost got a little emotional seeing this page s…
I worked at JPL at the time, and the mission was a pretty big deal there too. TV trucks in the parking lot for days. A long line outside to get your Hot Wheels toy rover. (I guess that would've gone under the employee merchandise link on this page, which is broken now.)