Category: Geeks r Us
So recently, whenever I go to amazon, it automatically opens the mobile site.
Normally, like with Facebook, I would prefer this, but it takes out so much
information. A lot of the time it has no descriptions, and with kindle it has no
way for me to buy the book I'm looking at. I can't figure out how to get it to not
do this.
Note, this is with my laptop, not my phone. Its using safari, so amazon
probably just thinks its an iphone. I don't know. Can anyone help?
You have to sign out of Amazon, close IE or whatever you use, and then when you go back to the page, it should show you the regular Amazon site.
Clearing the browsers history fixes it as well.
On the mobile site you have a full website link too, or a mobile website on the full site link.
I've never seen a link to the full site on the mobile site. Is it one of those weirdly labled graphics?
Thanks all, I got it fixed. I had to clear out all the cookies for amazon before it
would work again.
Yes, clearing your browser.
As to that link on the mobile site, I'll have to see. I can't remember what it says or were to find it.
I don't think there's a link. I've always had to type www.amazon.com/fullsite into my browser to make it go to the main site. And even when I did that, it would go back to the mobile site as soon as I clicked on something. Glad there's a fix. It was getting annoying! lol
Becky
Glad to know I wasn't the only one with that issue. I could't find anything about
it online.
Maybe they're trying to be overly helpful. lol
Wayne's right, it's a cookie.
Sites that have a mobile site will often dynamically distribute their content based on a variable set in the client side browser which in this case is a cookie.
In my opinion they ought to have a full side link which would take you there and wipe out the mobile association.
Probably an oversight of theirs.
The reason it's taking you back to that mobile site after you just used the full site is that when you click something the server side is using the data from the cookie to decide, not the link from whence it came. This architecturally makes sense with a distributed dynamic model like Amazon is using.
Again, I don't work for Amazon / have never seen their server side source. So I'm committing the new sin of generalizations, but generally speaking, this is how those dynamic distribution mmodels work.
To me, you guys' claim is a reasonable one, reasonably met by providing a full site link on every distributed page of the mobile site, just as the full site distributes a link to the mobile site on all its distributed pages. Or at least a majority of them where the content is distributed on both.
Cody presented a few examples where the content is not distributed in a platform-agnostic scheme.
Not putting words in your mouth, Cody, but the underlying implied question is in part why: Why is some of the content not platform-agnostic, so he doesn't get music samples and other content only available on the desktop platform. I don't work for them, I can only peradventure a guess which is probably correct In some ways and wrong in others:
Amazon is a mature product. So their mobile platform is probably designed for everything from a Windows Mobile device to a Blackberry to a modern smartphone. In fact, they aggregate to their own apps for the newer mobile devices.
Anyhow, I'm only guessing here, your typical scientific wild-ass guesss, as I have never worked for them nor looked at the source to their specific platform.
But I think the link to the main site distributed on every page propagated as mobile is a very reasonable request.
It is vvisual. His screen reader just doesn't see it.
Amazon also has an accessible page that is accessed from the main page.
On a Mac, I don't know how that page works however.
The link I was talking about is at the bottom of the page. It is almost the last thing on the page.
I am specificly talking about the mobile website, not the accessible page.
It says Amazon full site.
But still, clearning cookies is the best method.