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Did a quick test-run on my Xperia Ray, and I have a few questions/comments if anyone can answer them: - Is it possible to zoom to a readable level without pinc

Did a quick test-run on my Xperia Ray, and I have a few questions/comments if anyone can answer them: - Is it possible to zoom to a readable level without pinch-to-zoom (double tap is more of a mini-zoom)? - The text size settings seem to not have any effect, I even hard-restared the app, yet the font size seems the same? - When zooming with pinch, the text doesn't adapt to the new zoom level, so it's either unreadable text due to the size or unreadable text due to having to scroll for every word. I have a feeling I'm really terrible at using this app, but so far I haven't discovered anything in the menus that would help me. Chrome is downright unusable on the Ray compared to the stock (don't know if it's the low memory of the Ray or just the "beta" status of Chrome), so I'm still left wandering around for better choices, was hoping this would be it as FF is my browser of choice on the desktop. So far, not looking good :).

mbrubeck 14y ago
Firefox reformats text by enlarging it based on the width (like mobile Safari) rather than by re-wrapping it as you zoom (like Android or Opera Mobile). This means that when you double-tap on some text, it should zoom to the width of the text and that text should already be at a readable size. The "text size" preference determines how much the text is enlarged. It may not work on some pages because we use lots of heuristics to determine whether reformatting text will break the layout, and we are still working on tuning those heuristics.
- napoleoncomplex 14y ago
  Did some further testing on the 4 websites I actually visit on my mobile, 2 of them have specific mobile versions which look good, 2 of them don't have mobile versions (Hacker News is one of those), and the default zoom is much too small to read anything when double tapping. All 4 sites load what seems like 10 times faster than the stock, so the thing definitely flies in terms of loading. Based on that I'd switch in a heartbeat, but the zooming kills it. Do you think there will be any options for word wrap and the like in the future? Though I realise I might be in an extreme minority, as the Ray has an hdpi resolution screen despite it being only 3.3 inches, which amplifies the issue.
- ivysid 14y ago
  Missing re-flow/re-wrap makes for a sad mobile web experience. No love for iOS nor Windows Phone for this reason. Long live Android!
gcb 14y ago
reading hacker news is a pain with that browser. but to be honest, HN is one of worst 'simple' design sites that i've ever seen. i have no idea how but it breaks zoom on most browsers and makes moving the cursor inside the text area painfull. firefox will refuse to adjust text size. and trying to zoom will click all links under my fingers... just too weird

mbrubeck 14y ago

Firefox reformats text by enlarging it based on the width (like mobile Safari) rather than by re-wrapping it as you zoom (like Android or Opera Mobile). This means that when you double-tap on some text, it should zoom to the width of the text and that text should already be at a readable size. The "text size" preference determines how much the text is enlarged. It may not work on some pages because we use lots of heuristics to determine whether reformatting text will break the layout, and we are still working on tuning those heuristics.

napoleoncomplex 14y ago
Did some further testing on the 4 websites I actually visit on my mobile, 2 of them have specific mobile versions which look good, 2 of them don't have mobile versions (Hacker News is one of those), and the default zoom is much too small to read anything when double tapping. All 4 sites load what seems like 10 times faster than the stock, so the thing definitely flies in terms of loading. Based on that I'd switch in a heartbeat, but the zooming kills it. Do you think there will be any options for word wrap and the like in the future? Though I realise I might be in an extreme minority, as the Ray has an hdpi resolution screen despite it being only 3.3 inches, which amplifies the issue.
ivysid 14y ago
Missing re-flow/re-wrap makes for a sad mobile web experience. No love for iOS nor Windows Phone for this reason. Long live Android!

gcb 14y ago

reading hacker news is a pain with that browser. but to be honest, HN is one of worst 'simple' design sites that i've ever seen. i have no idea how but it breaks zoom on most browsers and makes moving the cursor inside the text area painfull. firefox will refuse to adjust text size. and trying to zoom will click all links under my fingers... just too weird