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Ask PG: Make Hacker News more mobile-friendly by adding a meta tag

16 points by petenixey 15y ago

Would it be possible to add the following meta tag to Hacker News to make it easier to read on mobiles: <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;" /> Adding it allows the site to scale fluidly on small-screen devices and changes the view from this: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/140/Hacker%20news%20without%20header.png to this: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/140/Hacker%20News%20with%20header.png Thank you

tferris 15y ago
On my phone (Android) it's already like suggested.
MattBearman 15y ago
Try this - http://ihackernews.com http://ihackernews.com - I only use iHackernews when on my iphone.
Terretta 15y ago
I think this is a poor idea. I don't want comments nesting trying to fit only a couple words wide. I dislike sites that squash my window width on the iPhone. The iPhone 4 display is 960x640, and I feel HN works well just the way it is. Four screens: http://imgur.com/a/XDzRb http://imgur.com/a/XDzRb // Browser in screenshots is iCab in chromeless view.
tszming 15y ago
Try hnmobile: http://cheeaun.github.com/hnmobile/ http://cheeaun.github.com/hnmobile/
jabo 15y ago
On the iPhone I primarily use Pulse to browse through and the news:yc app to comment and post. The news:yc app is really good IMHO.
jsnell 15y ago
Please don't disable zooming like that, it's a horrible crime against accessibility. Honestly, why do designers keep destroying sites with that crap?
- snotrockets 15y ago
  Luckily, Android's 4.0 browser (and maybe 3.x versions as well?) has an option to ignore this attribute. Sadly, it isn't set on by default.
saurik 15y ago
No. The only thing wrong with HN on mobile is the position/size of the up/down vote buttons. Otherwise, if you are unable to read the text you should get one of those clients that makes the text humungous, like news:yc. Otherwise, HN (which is one of only three things I use my iPhone for: SMS, Maps, and HN in MobileSafari) nearly perfectly takes advantage of the screen real-estate with its current formatting.

16 points by petenixey 15y ago

tferris 15y ago

On my phone (Android) it's already like suggested.

MattBearman 15y ago

Try this - http://ihackernews.com http://ihackernews.com - I only use iHackernews when on my iphone.

Terretta 15y ago

I think this is a poor idea. I don't want comments nesting trying to fit only a couple words wide. I dislike sites that squash my window width on the iPhone. The iPhone 4 display is 960x640, and I feel HN works well just the way it is. Four screens: http://imgur.com/a/XDzRb http://imgur.com/a/XDzRb // Browser in screenshots is iCab in chromeless view.

tszming 15y ago

Try hnmobile: http://cheeaun.github.com/hnmobile/ http://cheeaun.github.com/hnmobile/

jabo 15y ago

On the iPhone I primarily use Pulse to browse through and the news:yc app to comment and post. The news:yc app is really good IMHO.

jsnell 15y ago

Please don't disable zooming like that, it's a horrible crime against accessibility. Honestly, why do designers keep destroying sites with that crap?

snotrockets 15y ago
Luckily, Android's 4.0 browser (and maybe 3.x versions as well?) has an option to ignore this attribute. Sadly, it isn't set on by default.

saurik 15y ago

No. The only thing wrong with HN on mobile is the position/size of the up/down vote buttons. Otherwise, if you are unable to read the text you should get one of those clients that makes the text humungous, like news:yc. Otherwise, HN (which is one of only three things I use my iPhone for: SMS, Maps, and HN in MobileSafari) nearly perfectly takes advantage of the screen real-estate with its current formatting.