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Originally Posted by tso View Post
im sadly fully aware of where it comes from, and outside of that meme, he is a nice guy...

what i would like to see instead is the adaptive web. show up with a mobile browser, get a page streamlined for that, desktop same and so on.

but for that we need to toss the current way for the browser to id itself to the server, and rather have something where the browser can specifically tell the server what features it can or cant support.
Well, it's a long way from specific feature info, but CSS knows about different targets; at least print, desktop, and mobile. (For static pages, that mostly covers it, if it were used; it doesn't do much for scripted pages, but it's not clear how to implement inherent graceful degradation of them, and web designers won't manually implement it anymore than what they could do now.)