| ▲ | gspencley 3 days ago | |
It's not so much double the design work, it's double the code maintenance. I'm of two minds on this. I agree with your complaint that "mobile first" (or just responsiveness in general) has tended to reduce the pleasantness of the Desktop experience. As a web application developer, the idea of having to maintain two separate codebases - one for mobile and one for desktop - is a big "no thank-you." So responsiveness tends to win on maintenance overhead. | ||
| ▲ | einpoklum 3 days ago | parent [-] | |
> It's not so much double the design work, it's double the code maintenance. Well, of course it is: Different UI, different UI code. If that's problem, the developers should not have both a mobile and a desktop app in the first place. > has tended to reduce the pleasantness of the Desktop understatement of the year :-) ... it often hampers functionality, significantly, and makes the experience rather painful. | ||