Thread: Portrait mode use cases
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2009-09-17 , 12:55
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Originally Posted by attila77 View Post
Hm, it IS a great idea, but as you yourself pointed out, might not be that intuitive for folks (not sure how many even realize that mobile versions exist). Could be a nice touch for 'power users', though.
And many websites, I am sure, just are not designed to be switched from mobile/full version in the middle of a session.

One solution would be to have landscape only pages and portrait only ones, but I am not really fond of this.

The best, I think, would be this:

the browser sticks to the desktop/mobile version of the page when it STARTS.

You open a new browser page, rotate to portrait, enter a new URL. This browser instance will STICK to "mobile" versions of all the pages/sites it loads.

If you don't rotate and open a website, that instance of the browser will stick to the desktop version of all the URLs you throw at him.

If you rotate a "sticked" browser instance, you rotate the full or the mobile version of the site as well.

This should not confuse users.
 

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