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> A fixed layout is not going to work for all devices.

Designers are also making their choice with HTML nowadays : Desktop is not supported anymore. Look e.g. at twitter, a billion dollars company switching to mobile web only. Flash could easily implement media queries to re-layout itself.



> Look e.g. at twitter, a billion dollars company switching to mobile web only

Source? Twitter.com currently works just fine on Desktop. Even dynamically adjusts its layout to look good on a bunch of different screen sizes.


Just by the padding in the buttons it's obvious that twitter's current site was built for mobile. Sure, it's responsive, and i bet flash could become responsive if it was still alive. HTML games however are also non-responsive most of the time just due to the nature of their use case.


They might have meant mobile-first and not mobile only. Their desktop site is very clearly designed for mobile, the main content does not change at varying screen widths. The sidebar and header do a bit of restyling, but thats about it.


https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2019/introduci...

> The site has an updated look and feel that is more consistent with the Twitter you see on other devices




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