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Notion WebApp serves the mobile version of their website because it scans for touchscreen/device identifiers, slightly different from UserAgent. People used to by pass this with a JavaScript code but I believe many websites serve a touch optimized experience simply because their sites can check for touch screen = yes.

Would open up more of the desktop versions of sites like Notion if this was looked into. Very niche of course, but Notion in particular is one WebApp that simply wont solve this and I believe Figma and CapCut also dont work as webapps with full functionality due to the Mobile Device being triggered.

Since Orion can launch chrome extensions it would be cool to see Orion add code that allows for CapCut web or Riverside.fm to run and of course this Notion issue.

These are really the last limitations for iPad users and Webapps. Aside from Riverside, CapCut and Notion - MAYBE the Google Webapps don’t always work as intended due to this TouchScreen and Mobile triggers. So a different version of the desktop sites are served.

  • Vlad replied to this.
    16 days later

    By default it will serve the mobile optimized version.

      You’ll be able to see the difference in website when you go to add a new row to a database block. On mobile it opens up a full page view for that row and leaves the database block completely.

      The desktop version allows you to continue typing in the database view. From what I read the way they determine how to serve this version of the site has to do with touch optimization so its less a mobile site and more of a touch screen flag that people used to be able to overcome with JavaScript.

        No one is typing