There have been reports of inconsistent rendering of Wikimedia sites when trying to use the "desktop" view from a mobile device. I'm documenting the issue I'm personally seeing in the steps below, but other have reported similar but different issues on enwiki VP (Technical) [ 1 ][ 2 ]
Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):
- Visit any article page on en.wikipedia.org while logged out using a mobile device browser that supports a native "desktop" view option
- See that it renders the mobile experience with MinervaNeue
- Toggle the native browser-level "desktop" view option on
- See that it renders the Vector 2022 skin with article text at a readable size
- Toggle the native browser-level "desktop" view option off
- See that it renders back to the mobile experience with MinervaNeue
- Log in
- Toggle the native browser-level "desktop" view option back on
- See that it now renders very zoomed out but still with MinervaNeue
Note that the logged-in behavior persists even after logging back out until some hard refresh action resets it.
What happens?:
The experience is inconsistent
What should have happened instead?:
It should be consistent between logged in and logged out experiences. I don't know which version (if any) are the expected view.
Software version (on Special:Version page; skip for WMF-hosted wikis like Wikipedia):
All Wikimedia sites? Tested on Latest Chrome on Android and Brave (Chrome-based) on Android (behavior is identical in both browsers).
Other information (browser name/version, screenshots, etc.):
Logged-out, with Chrome/Brave native "Desktop" option toggled on
Logged-in, with Chrome/Brave native "Desktop" option toggled on
