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No, Safari on iOS auto-formats text columns to be screen width when you zoom in (double-tap) on them... but the rest of the website is intact!
by tomp 7y ago
No, Safari on iOS auto-formats text columns to be screen width when you zoom in (double-tap) on them... but the rest of the website is intact!
- kalleboo 7y agoIf I double-tap a column of text, it will zoom in on the part of the page to fit the width of the column on the screen, but if the column is too wide (e.g. a page with just a single 100% width column of text) the text size is still unreadably small. It won't reflow the column to fit the screen. (e.g. try visiting http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/I/ICBM-address.html http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/I/ICBM-address.html, a page with no viewport directive and not even any page width CSS) The early Android browser used to actually reflow columns to fit on the mobile screen when you zoomed in, but it lost that in the transition to Chrome.
- tomp 7y agoThat shows OK on iOS (6 lines of text, vs 2.5 lines on desktop Safari), without even having to double-tap.
- kalleboo 7y agoYou must have much better eyes than me (or a bigger iPhone) - at 6 lines the font size is half the size of the text on Hacker News, which is already pushing it for readability, and a third of the default font size for Safari's own "reader mode". The 6 lines comes from iOS Safari defaulting to emulating an approx 800 point wide display (on a 400 point wide display)
- tomp 7y agoIndeed, I've 20/20 vision... Setting "Larger Text" in Accessibility Settings unfortunately doesn't increase the rendered text size on that website (it should) but it also doesn't increase it on Twitter's fully mobile website.
- Mirioron 7y agoThat page is fine on my fairly old android phone while using brave. It might even be a bit jarring because the text is a bit too big.