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>His website is the best designed website The forced R and L margins suck for people with oldster eyes who have to increase the text size. Kids these days!

RGBCube 3y ago
I have not seen the page on PC, all I can say is that it works very well on mobile.
gwern 3y ago
I don't really understand your comment. The size of the margins doesn't really have anything to do with the size of the text. (If we increased the base font size, as we've done a few times already, the margins would probably be kept the same.) If you increase the text size with the standard browser zoom commands like Ctrl-+/-, the margins are not fixed or anything like that, and you will get bigger text & lines.
- wintermutestwin 3y ago
  Yes, with Ctrl+ I get bigger text, but the margins stay the same and make the text flow further down the page so I have to scroll too often to read in a fluid manner. Compare to HN margins, which are smaller and when you enlarge beyond a certain point, the margins get even smaller.
  - gwern 3y ago
    That's odd, because that's not how browser zoom works. I checked in both Firefox & Chromium, and if you zoom in, the margins do get smaller & smaller and eventually go away completely when you reach mobile-mode where the text is edge to edge. (Are you sure you didn't do something like enable "Zoom text only" in your browser settings? That it works 'properly' on HN doesn't mean much because HN uses weird table layout for everything.)
    - wintermutestwin 3y ago
      "Zoom text only" was enabled. I checked a freshly installed Firefox and that is not the default so I am unsure how it was enabled, but it was. Thank you so much for helping me solve this!
      - gwern 3y ago
        Glad to hear that. I was worried that you would say you were using Safari. We keep having problems with Safari doing the wrong thing and we don't have convenient access to Safari instances.

RGBCube 3y ago

I have not seen the page on PC, all I can say is that it works very well on mobile.

gwern 3y ago

I don't really understand your comment. The size of the margins doesn't really have anything to do with the size of the text. (If we increased the base font size, as we've done a few times already, the margins would probably be kept the same.) If you increase the text size with the standard browser zoom commands like Ctrl-+/-, the margins are not fixed or anything like that, and you will get bigger text & lines.

wintermutestwin 3y ago
Yes, with Ctrl+ I get bigger text, but the margins stay the same and make the text flow further down the page so I have to scroll too often to read in a fluid manner. Compare to HN margins, which are smaller and when you enlarge beyond a certain point, the margins get even smaller.
- gwern 3y ago
  That's odd, because that's not how browser zoom works. I checked in both Firefox & Chromium, and if you zoom in, the margins do get smaller & smaller and eventually go away completely when you reach mobile-mode where the text is edge to edge. (Are you sure you didn't do something like enable "Zoom text only" in your browser settings? That it works 'properly' on HN doesn't mean much because HN uses weird table layout for everything.)
  - wintermutestwin 3y ago
    "Zoom text only" was enabled. I checked a freshly installed Firefox and that is not the default so I am unsure how it was enabled, but it was. Thank you so much for helping me solve this!
    - gwern 3y ago
      Glad to hear that. I was worried that you would say you were using Safari. We keep having problems with Safari doing the wrong thing and we don't have convenient access to Safari instances.