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Increasing the Clickable Area of Inline Links
- benologist 14y agoThis seems a bit unnecessary, there are elegant solutions already being built into mobile browsers which is by far the best place to address issues like this.
- joshnh 14y agoWould you mind sharing some more information on these 'elegant solutions'? I'm yet to experience them.
- benologist 14y agoOpera on my phone automatically zooms whenever you tap a link near another link so you can select with no ambiguity, and I believe Chrome on Android does too: http://www.androidcentral.com/chrome-android-walkthrough http://www.androidcentral.com/chrome-android-walkthrough Safari is notably lagging behind but it's a crappy browser... back button right next to the close tab button suffering from the exact problem you're describing.
- gojomo 14y agoI kind of assumed mobile browsers might already be doing this -- 'smudging' clicks a few pixels towards the nearest clickable region, whenever they land someplace neutral. Still, if/when they don't, this seems helpful. In particular, if the HN up/down triangles had this, biased in the direction opposite each other, there'd be fewer mistaken votes on touch screens.