Anyways, the point of this is that in almost all uses, mobile site versions are god-awful.
I think you're right, unless the site commits the abonimable sin of redirecting from a specific desktop-targeted page to the homepage of the mobile site when it detects a certain user agent.
STOP DOING THAT.
It is absolutely the worst thing I have seen happen to site usability now that mobile sites are becoming more popular. And it's compounded in several cases by broken "view desktop version" links that still prevent me from actually seeing the page I requested in the first place.
Poor implementation that literally prevents users from viewing your content on popular devices is appalling UX, and it's one of the few things that will make me leave your site forever and never return.
I think you're right, unless the site commits the abonimable sin of redirecting from a specific desktop-targeted page to the homepage of the mobile site when it detects a certain user agent.
STOP DOING THAT.
It is absolutely the worst thing I have seen happen to site usability now that mobile sites are becoming more popular. And it's compounded in several cases by broken "view desktop version" links that still prevent me from actually seeing the page I requested in the first place.
Poor implementation that literally prevents users from viewing your content on popular devices is appalling UX, and it's one of the few things that will make me leave your site forever and never return.