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Comment by Nimsical | Hacker News Reader

It's rather ironic that the front-end developer handbook doesn't support mobile devices.

Doesn't inspire confidence.

There is mention of mobile devices as early as page 8. There are 31 uses of the word "mobile" in the document. The document does not tell you how to build a website, it tells you about the tools you can use to do so reading as a series of lists linking to those technologies and a series of graphs. If you want to know about media queries for example, you have to follow the links. It's not meant as a PDF version MDN or W3schools.

edit: not usually one to complain about downvotes, but the document is literally what I described it to be. So, why?

I think he meant that gitbooks doesn't have a responsive layout when you hit the "read" button instead of downloading a PDF, ePub, or mobi. The book's content is unreadable and cut off in my mobile browser when I try to read it that way.

I think you have been downvoted because you missed the point of the parent comment. The HTML version of the handbook is not readable on mobile (the table of contents leaves no room for the content).

Well thanks for telling me at least. I reread OP's comment and I see what was meant now, it wasn't clear to me at the time I commented though.

Looks fine to me. The TOC is hidden behind the hamburger menu, and the text layouts correctly.

Both on FF and Chrome (Android 6)

  'support' <> 'mention'

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