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And still, none of them really works on mobile. If I zoom in to increase the font size and make it more readable, the text doesn't reflow so it forces me to dr
by TuringTest 3y ago
And still, none of them really works on mobile.
If I zoom in to increase the font size and make it more readable, the text doesn't reflow so it forces me to drag left and right to read the whole line.
There used to be a time where you could have actual adaptive reflowing zoomable text content, but web designers and browser developers conspired to break it and make it worse.
- solarkraft 3y agoIt's just browser developers. And I think it's largely caused by the brain worm of "you don't need that on mobile".
- mistercow 3y agoOn iOS Safari, there’s a little “ᴀA” button left of the location bar which lets you zoom to make the text larger, reflowing the way you expect. This makes sense to me. Pinch to zoom is a specific affordance which means “make the line segment between my fingers be this long”. It wouldn’t make sense with reflow.
- arcbyte 3y agoInteresting..... But if you change the font size setting on your browser you will get exactly what you want. Odd how zoom and font size are not linked the same as on desktop - at least for me on Firefox mobile.
- TuringTest 3y agoYes, but compare changing the size of small text on a per-site basis by changing the browser settings vs simply doing a pinch gesture... There used to be a Firefox extension to force text reflow on any website, but recent versions with the new extension API don't allow installing it.