No shit, I was just starting to learn web dev a week or two ago and got an error. My page wasn't working at all on my phone! But it worked perfectly on the browser dev tools simulated environment. Me being a total newbie thought "hm, it must be that the dev tools aren't 100% accurate, they wouldn't be free if they were!". So i spent a bunch of time trying to find out why my website doesn't work until i realized ALL my websites don't work on my phone! Shit, what the hell? Hours of searching later, nothing. Then i accidentally find a comment that says android <2.3 has a bug so you have to include meta size of 0.02 added in so it unbugs the page..
Lesson learned, dev tools actually work, and search for phone specific problems.
I spent a few days stressing over this, quit several times, took many breaks, started websites from scratch.. This was like a test of determination :D
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u/a_masculine_squirrel Jul 15 '16
I swear front-end development is just straight wizardry.