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To the site author: I'm on a MBP M1 Mac and honestly I can't really read the text. Far too small, and increasing the zoom just makes the text large but the marg

To the site author: I'm on a MBP M1 Mac and honestly I can't really read the text. Far too small, and increasing the zoom just makes the text large but the margins less wide. Firefox reader mode also renders really badly. Please, consider making the layout better for us old coders whose eyes are going, or for hi res displays

sam_lowry_ 1y ago
Works great on Firefox for Android though )
- lucasoshiro 1y ago
  Also works great on Safari on a M1 MacBook Air, here
derefr 1y ago
FYI: the pinch-to-zoom gesture from mobile browsers (from before websites were mobile-responsive) has also long been implemented for all modern desktop browsers. It's viewport zoom, which is far better than the font-scaling zoom you get by pressing Cmd-+, and makes this site easily readable. (The much-less-well-known mobile double-tap-on-text gesture [it zooms-to-fit whatever element you tapped on to the width of the viewport] was also ported to desktop browsers. Though, on desktop with a touchpad, it's a two-finger double-tap — which I don't think anyone would ever even think to try.)
- BobaFloutist 1y ago
  Double tap on text highlights it for me. Is that an Iphone/android thing or what?
  - derefr 1y ago
    As I said, it's a two finger double-tap. But also, under further investigation — and unlike with pinch-to-zoom — desktop support for the two-finger double-tap gesture seems to be specific to macOS. (Which is weird, because Chrome has support for arbitrary multitouch gesture processing to enable the JS multitouch API. So you'd think Chrome's support for "the multitouch gestures the OS expects" would be built on top of that generic multitouch recognizer [and therefore working everywhere that recognizer works], instead of expecting the OS to pre-recognize specific gestures and translate them to specific OS input events.)
    - BobaFloutist 1y ago
      I was trying on my phone, but my laptop seems to interpret it as a right click. Which, frankly, makes sense.
  - antonvs 1y ago
    On my iPad in Safari and Pixel Android phone in Firefox, one-finger double tap on text does the fit to viewport. On my Ubuntu laptop in Chrome, I couldn’t find a way to make it work - even tapping the touchscreen didn’t work. But I’m not using the stock Ubuntu GUI, so it could be that (LXqt+XMonad).
    - BobaFloutist 1y ago
      >Pixel Android phone in Firefox, one-finger double tap on text does the fit to viewport. I'm very confused, can you clarify what makes this different from the gesture that highlights text? Edit: it appears that "request desktop site" makes it fit the viewport, whereas using the mobile view it's I guess already fitting the viewport so it highlights the text. The strange thing is in the desktop view, if I pinch zoom after fitting the viewport and do it again, it zooms out, whereas the mobile view still highlights the text. Which kinda makes sense, since mobile view it's fairly likely that you zoomed in to highlight the text more accurately, though it's weird that it's so inconsistent.
      - antonvs 1y ago
        On both my iPad and Android, to highlight text I press and hold. I can't find a way to make double-tap do that.
        BobaFloutist 1y ago
        Are you using Chrome or Firefox, on Android?
- LocalPCGuy 1y ago
  FWIW, most browsers by default now do a viewport zoom with Ctrl/Cmd-+ rather than a font-scaling zoom. I think browsers generally have the option to change that, so if you prefer the former but it's doing the latter, may check the browser settings.
retsibsi 1y ago
For me, the text size would be fine if the contrast were better. The background colour is similar to the colour of the non-central pixels of the text, and even the central pixels are grey rather than black.
drewsberry 1y ago
Thanks for letting me know. I'm on an M3 and haven't experienced any issues myself, but allowing for font size configuration seems like a pretty good idea. I'd added this in so if you happen to take another look, I'd be interested to hear whether you think this is an improvement.

sam_lowry_ 1y ago

Works great on Firefox for Android though )

lucasoshiro 1y ago
Also works great on Safari on a M1 MacBook Air, here

derefr 1y ago

FYI: the pinch-to-zoom gesture from mobile browsers (from before websites were mobile-responsive) has also long been implemented for all modern desktop browsers. It's viewport zoom, which is far better than the font-scaling zoom you get by pressing Cmd-+, and makes this site easily readable. (The much-less-well-known mobile double-tap-on-text gesture [it zooms-to-fit whatever element you tapped on to the width of the viewport] was also ported to desktop browsers. Though, on desktop with a touchpad, it's a two-finger double-tap — which I don't think anyone would ever even think to try.)

BobaFloutist 1y ago
Double tap on text highlights it for me. Is that an Iphone/android thing or what?
- derefr 1y ago
  As I said, it's a two finger double-tap. But also, under further investigation — and unlike with pinch-to-zoom — desktop support for the two-finger double-tap gesture seems to be specific to macOS. (Which is weird, because Chrome has support for arbitrary multitouch gesture processing to enable the JS multitouch API. So you'd think Chrome's support for "the multitouch gestures the OS expects" would be built on top of that generic multitouch recognizer [and therefore working everywhere that recognizer works], instead of expecting the OS to pre-recognize specific gestures and translate them to specific OS input events.)
  - BobaFloutist 1y ago
    I was trying on my phone, but my laptop seems to interpret it as a right click. Which, frankly, makes sense.
- antonvs 1y ago
  On my iPad in Safari and Pixel Android phone in Firefox, one-finger double tap on text does the fit to viewport. On my Ubuntu laptop in Chrome, I couldn’t find a way to make it work - even tapping the touchscreen didn’t work. But I’m not using the stock Ubuntu GUI, so it could be that (LXqt+XMonad).
  - BobaFloutist 1y ago
    >Pixel Android phone in Firefox, one-finger double tap on text does the fit to viewport. I'm very confused, can you clarify what makes this different from the gesture that highlights text? Edit: it appears that "request desktop site" makes it fit the viewport, whereas using the mobile view it's I guess already fitting the viewport so it highlights the text. The strange thing is in the desktop view, if I pinch zoom after fitting the viewport and do it again, it zooms out, whereas the mobile view still highlights the text. Which kinda makes sense, since mobile view it's fairly likely that you zoomed in to highlight the text more accurately, though it's weird that it's so inconsistent.
    - antonvs 1y ago
      On both my iPad and Android, to highlight text I press and hold. I can't find a way to make double-tap do that.
      - BobaFloutist 1y ago
        Are you using Chrome or Firefox, on Android?
LocalPCGuy 1y ago
FWIW, most browsers by default now do a viewport zoom with Ctrl/Cmd-+ rather than a font-scaling zoom. I think browsers generally have the option to change that, so if you prefer the former but it's doing the latter, may check the browser settings.

retsibsi 1y ago

For me, the text size would be fine if the contrast were better. The background colour is similar to the colour of the non-central pixels of the text, and even the central pixels are grey rather than black.

drewsberry 1y ago

Thanks for letting me know. I'm on an M3 and haven't experienced any issues myself, but allowing for font size configuration seems like a pretty good idea. I'd added this in so if you happen to take another look, I'd be interested to hear whether you think this is an improvement.