I’m really beginning to hate that WPTouch plugin for WordPress. The one that redirects all mobile browsers to a clickfest version of a blog, just for the sake of looking like an app.

Oh I was interested in it too at first. The nifty draw of a quasi-iPhone interface for a website almost had me install it a few times, but then I realized just how annoying it is to constantly get “mobile” versions of websites, WPTouch versions included.

I now have several handheld devices that can render pages in their full (or nearly full) glory, but portions of the web seem to be doing their best to limit these devices.

I realize as a user I can turn it off, but it’s getting tiresome with all of these sites to scroll to the bottom to hit that little button. My smartphone’s browser is hella convenient until I hit one of these inconvenient websites.

We’ve finally hit the era of decent full-featured browsing in our pockets. It’s time for these lesser versions of our sites to go bye bye.

If you really want an app version of your website, how about making one? Even a WPTouch powered web-app would be fine. What I’m requesting here is that the default for your website should just be– your website. Go ahead and setup a cutdown optional version of your site if you like, but please let me opt-in instead of opt-out.