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Please change your CSS so it doesn't force Android to show a microscopic font with long lines and disabled zoom/ reflowing.

by Evbn 14y ago

minimaxir 14y ago
The CSS is based off of Bootstrap, so everything should be showing correctly on mobile and tablets (I don't have an Android device myself so I can't verify that particular use case). I'll look into it; in the meantime, I enabled zoom for mobile devices.
- CamperBob2 14y ago
  in the meantime, I enabled zoom for mobile devices. Whoever turned it off in the first place was a bad person, and should feel bad for doing so.
  - minimaxir 14y ago
    Having zoom enabled and changing device rotation can cause formatting issues on some devices. The mobile (smartphone) websites of TechCrunch, Yahoo, Cnet, Mashable, etc. all disable mobile zoom. Tablets appear to be a different story though, and zoom might need to be enabled there.
    - quotemstr 14y ago
      > Having zoom enabled and changing device rotation can cause formatting issues on some devices. Then fix your goddamn site instead of gimping the user's web browser.
    - Evbn 14y ago
      Ponder this: you have a fixed layout for devices ranging from 3.5in to 10in in size. Assuming you optimized for a he 10in display, does it seem reasonable that the same layout works at 1x and 0.35x zoom level, at all DPI values? Seems best to let users choose to not zoom if their devices are broken, than to tell devices to turn off features. It is a sad bug that my Browser respects requests from web sites to hobble itself. I would rather pan and scan then stare at tiny text. Your site works with zoom now, thank you! TC etc are all websites I don't read on my phone (or at all, generally). Also, your site disabled zoom even when I requested the Desktop version. If you inherited that bug from Bootstrap, that is awful of bootstrap to do.
  - quotemstr 14y ago
    The "bad person" here is whoever decided to let websites turn off mobile zoom. My web browser on my device is mine, dammit, and it'll render websites the way I want. Web site creators have no right to control my user experience.
    - Zr40 14y ago
      There are valid reasons to be able to turn off the ability to zoom -- web apps with a touch UI, for example.
      - quotemstr 14y ago
        Then let the user turn it back on. It's my device, not yours.

Please change your CSS so it doesn't force Android to show a microscopic font with long lines and disabled zoom/ reflowing.

by Evbn 14y ago

Please change your CSS so it doesn't force Android to show a microscopic font with long lines and disabled zoom/ reflowing.

minimaxir 14y ago

The CSS is based off of Bootstrap, so everything should be showing correctly on mobile and tablets (I don't have an Android device myself so I can't verify that particular use case). I'll look into it; in the meantime, I enabled zoom for mobile devices.

CamperBob2 14y ago
in the meantime, I enabled zoom for mobile devices. Whoever turned it off in the first place was a bad person, and should feel bad for doing so.
- minimaxir 14y ago
  Having zoom enabled and changing device rotation can cause formatting issues on some devices. The mobile (smartphone) websites of TechCrunch, Yahoo, Cnet, Mashable, etc. all disable mobile zoom. Tablets appear to be a different story though, and zoom might need to be enabled there.
  - quotemstr 14y ago
    > Having zoom enabled and changing device rotation can cause formatting issues on some devices. Then fix your goddamn site instead of gimping the user's web browser.
  - Evbn 14y ago
    Ponder this: you have a fixed layout for devices ranging from 3.5in to 10in in size. Assuming you optimized for a he 10in display, does it seem reasonable that the same layout works at 1x and 0.35x zoom level, at all DPI values? Seems best to let users choose to not zoom if their devices are broken, than to tell devices to turn off features. It is a sad bug that my Browser respects requests from web sites to hobble itself. I would rather pan and scan then stare at tiny text. Your site works with zoom now, thank you! TC etc are all websites I don't read on my phone (or at all, generally). Also, your site disabled zoom even when I requested the Desktop version. If you inherited that bug from Bootstrap, that is awful of bootstrap to do.
- quotemstr 14y ago
  The "bad person" here is whoever decided to let websites turn off mobile zoom. My web browser on my device is mine, dammit, and it'll render websites the way I want. Web site creators have no right to control my user experience.
  - Zr40 14y ago
    There are valid reasons to be able to turn off the ability to zoom -- web apps with a touch UI, for example.
    - quotemstr 14y ago
      Then let the user turn it back on. It's my device, not yours.