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Not really related to the article, but would you look at that web page. This is what all of them should look like! Nothing fancy, just good content, 64.91KB in

Not really related to the article, but would you look at that web page. This is what all of them should look like! Nothing fancy, just good content, 64.91KB in total.

cgvgffyv 10y ago
And yet I can't read it on my phone without scrolling side to side.
- deleted 10y ago
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- anc84 10y ago
  That's because your browser sucks. Try Opera Mobile or something similar. Good browsers can reflow text to fit whatever screen size they display at. This website has zero CSS related to layout, so it is your browser's duty to render it nicely. It boggles my mind why reflow is not one of the most important and most highly regarded features of any mobile browser.
  - y4mi 10y ago
    even after 'zooming in'? it didn't create a new viewport for me after doing that that. on opera mobile: are you truly comfortable to use a 'default on man-in-the-middle-ware' from china? (it proxies everything and compresses it, to save data bandwidth) i stopped using it in August because of that. might've been too paranoid though.
    - anc84 10y ago
      Just turn off the "VPN" proxying if that makes you uncomfortable. Personally I am less concerned about the Boogiemen from China/Russia than about the pervasive ruin of privacy by US companies.
  - noisem4ker 10y ago
    The problem is quickly solved on Firefox thanks to its "Fit text to width" addon [1]. >it is your browser's duty to render it nicely I think browsers should have the ultimate say on how to display websites, according to the user's preferences (think of text size and colors). Sadly, with websites gradually transforming into "web apps", users are losing control. [1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/En-us/firefox/addon/fit-text-to-width/ https://addons.mozilla.org/En-us/firefox/addon/fit-text-to-w...
    - sverige 10y ago
      Thanks for pointing to that add-on. Works nicely.
- daptaq 10y ago
  Yeah, they should add the meta/viewport with scale=1 tag to the head, and it would improve readability on phones. I mean it't annoying that the web is in a state where that is necessary, but until it's solved, it's better (and not much more difficult) than nothing.

Not really related to the article, but would you look at that web page. This is what all of them should look like! Nothing fancy, just good content, 64.91KB in total.

cgvgffyv 10y ago

And yet I can't read it on my phone without scrolling side to side.

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anc84 10y ago
That's because your browser sucks. Try Opera Mobile or something similar. Good browsers can reflow text to fit whatever screen size they display at. This website has zero CSS related to layout, so it is your browser's duty to render it nicely. It boggles my mind why reflow is not one of the most important and most highly regarded features of any mobile browser.
- y4mi 10y ago
  even after 'zooming in'? it didn't create a new viewport for me after doing that that. on opera mobile: are you truly comfortable to use a 'default on man-in-the-middle-ware' from china? (it proxies everything and compresses it, to save data bandwidth) i stopped using it in August because of that. might've been too paranoid though.
  - anc84 10y ago
    Just turn off the "VPN" proxying if that makes you uncomfortable. Personally I am less concerned about the Boogiemen from China/Russia than about the pervasive ruin of privacy by US companies.
- noisem4ker 10y ago
  The problem is quickly solved on Firefox thanks to its "Fit text to width" addon [1]. >it is your browser's duty to render it nicely I think browsers should have the ultimate say on how to display websites, according to the user's preferences (think of text size and colors). Sadly, with websites gradually transforming into "web apps", users are losing control. [1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/En-us/firefox/addon/fit-text-to-width/ https://addons.mozilla.org/En-us/firefox/addon/fit-text-to-w...
  - sverige 10y ago
    Thanks for pointing to that add-on. Works nicely.
daptaq 10y ago
Yeah, they should add the meta/viewport with scale=1 tag to the head, and it would improve readability on phones. I mean it't annoying that the web is in a state where that is necessary, but until it's solved, it's better (and not much more difficult) than nothing.