I've built responsive sites that work as you'd expect in desktop mode, and I'm not 100% certain how other sites that don't are built.
They seem to degrade into some odd hybrid between desktop and mobile. It's like the worst of both worlds.
So, for example, you get hamburger menus, instead of the full desktop nav. And you get a different layout with an increased PPI, but it's not quite mobile and not quite desktop.
I can only assume that they are looking at the agent string in addition to implementing media queries / breakpoints. But there's also something weird going on with the PPI.
Whatever it is, seems like it takes more effort to create a poorer design.
I've built responsive sites that work as you'd expect in desktop mode, and I'm not 100% certain how other sites that don't are built.
They seem to degrade into some odd hybrid between desktop and mobile. It's like the worst of both worlds.
So, for example, you get hamburger menus, instead of the full desktop nav. And you get a different layout with an increased PPI, but it's not quite mobile and not quite desktop.
I can only assume that they are looking at the agent string in addition to implementing media queries / breakpoints. But there's also something weird going on with the PPI.
Whatever it is, seems like it takes more effort to create a poorer design.