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One major change HN would need on mobile would be making the click target for actions (up/down vote, reply, etc) larger. Currently I need to zoom in every time
by kuschku 9y ago
One major change HN would need on mobile would be making the click target for actions (up/down vote, reply, etc) larger.
Currently I need to zoom in every time to click any of them.
- swiley 9y agoNo. I'm fine zooming in or trying multiple times, I spend much more time trying to read which becomes harder when more and more of the screen is taken up by things that are not text.
- Al-Khwarizmi 9y agoThey could make the up/down arrows taller, but not wider. This would prevent fat-fingering the wrong vote, and would not take space from text.
- whostolemyhat 9y agoYes. It's annoying having workarounds for basic site functionality.
- yoz-y 9y agoThere are other ways to do this. The arrows could be put to the right of the [-] icon and wider apart.
- yoz-y 9y agoAlso what's with the blurry arrows for votes?
- Namrog84 9y agoBlurry arrows? I don't see any? Which ones do you mean? Screenshot?
- kuschku 9y agoHN uses images of 16px height for arrows, which are rendered on mobile with ~48-96px height. Obviously, that ends up blurry. The solution is SVG.
- kinkrtyavimoodh 9y agoIsn't the solution simply unicode?
- yoz-y 9y agoI suppose it is easier to control the actual size, padding and so on with SVG. Unicode does have correct glyphs though and I suppose that the exact rendering of the arrows is not much of a priority. However currently they are blurry on any high dpi screen.