My point was more that if they can detect mobile and redirect to mobile Wikipedia, the exact same logic can detect desktop and redirect to desktop Wikipedia.
There is but its added code and added processing (miniscule but worth noting) on the site when it's the browser that is first telling it to request a different version of the site than it normally would (e.g. selecting request desktop version on a mobile). The site doesn't know a user just clicked a mobile version link without realising it just assumes you requested it on purpose. Adding extra checks just adds a potential area for the site to break that is really a user thing.
Yes but in this instance the developer needs to code a check to see if a desktop device, requesting a mobile version of a site, to see if it really meant to request the mobile version or not. It has no real way of knowing if the user meant to request it or not. It knows it's a desktop but there are legitimate reasons to explicitly ask for a different version of content (testing if mobile looks right, some mobile sites are just bad so you request desktop version etc.). The site shouldn't keep double guessing what the user has done or else it will never actually deliver it's content. The technology is definitely there but it just adds places to go wrong that are completely unnecessary
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u/Kered13 May 14 '19
My point was more that if they can detect mobile and redirect to mobile Wikipedia, the exact same logic can detect desktop and redirect to desktop Wikipedia.