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I'm aware, and consciously chose this because in this case I thought that preformatted was clearer. But perhaps I'm wrong. What percentage of people use mobil
by nkurz 8y ago
I'm aware, and consciously chose this because in this case I thought that preformatted was clearer. But perhaps I'm wrong. What percentage of people use mobile for HN? Is there a reasonable column width that works for 95% of them?
Edit: OK, I just looked at it on a phone. Yes, it looks bad, and that the lines would have to be about half the length to be readable. Too late to edit this one, but I'll try to switch to italics or '>' in the future for everything except for code samples.
- mikeash 8y agoI’d wager it’s a pretty high percentage. HN works great on mobile aside from this. There’s no reasonable column width, just use quotes for quotes.
- Normal_gaussian 8y agoI get 26 characters portrait, 40 landscape. I almost exclusively read HN on mobile, occasionally emailing things to myself to do on a desktop/laptop later.
- giancarlostoro 8y agoOn the other hand reader mode for FireFox temporarily fixes the bug.
- hunter2_ 8y agoHard-wrapping to some column width only ever really works when you know the physical width of the screen/paper. Otherwise, dynamic soft wrapping.
- hollerith 8y agoI hate preformatted text in HN comments (and I never even read HN on mobile).