Monday, 30 March 2015

Re: BBC News

Tony Moore, on 30 Mar, wrote:

> According to http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-the-editors-32016166 published
> by the BBC, on 23 March 2015
>
> Our new "responsive" design [of the BBC News website], which we've
> just launched for desktop computer, aims to make sure the site looks
> great whichever device or screen size you are on - mobile, tablet or
> desktop.

This works well here on the desktop and iPad versions of Safari, the intent
seems reasonable and appears well implemented in that context.

> However, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news , displayed by NetSurf #2655, on a
> RiscPC, seems to be a version for mobile, and looks far from 'great'.

This helps, (a bit) http://www.bbc.co.uk/?dzf=news

> Do others see the same mess?

It certainly goes wrong in NetSurf and the real mobile version goes even
more wrong, http://m.bbc.co.uk/news

JavaScript is required for the progressive jpegs, a problem for NetSurf
which gets stuck with low resolution versions.

Users can have their say :-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-editors-31989823

https://ecustomeropinions.com/survey/survey.php?sid=264941693

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David Pitt

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