For substantial reading, a smartphone just does not cut it for me. A desktop has a larger screen which is wider, and fonts are larger and easier to read. For the reading of a lot of content, nothing beats a desktop. It is with displeasure that I find newspapers degrading their user interface experience for the desktop in favour of the smartphone.
Globe and Mail recently revamped their site. Now gone are mouse overs, where you mouse over a link and it tells you a summary. This allows you to know beforehand if the article is worth reading.
Also gone are right mouse button clicks, which give you various browser options. Replacing the right mouse button click is a left mouse button click, where you go right into the article. This wastes the time for those of us on desktops.
Maddening.
