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Yes, Chrome on Android is a travesty, and this article doesn't even list all of the major issues it has. The fonts being screwed up is a "feature" -- Chrome tr
by jsnell 14y ago
Yes, Chrome on Android is a travesty, and this article doesn't even list all of the major issues it has.
The fonts being screwed up is a "feature" -- Chrome tries to detect which pieces of text are important and enlarge them (and the reverse for unimportant). I don't think it'd be useful even if the decisions on what's important worked well. And boy, the decisions really don't work well.
- magic_haze 14y agoInteresting.. I had no idea it was the browser that did that - I always thought it was something in HN's styling. My windows phone browser does something similar (e.g., http://imgur.com/ONCGHL8 http://imgur.com/ONCGHL8), but the decision its algorithm makes correlates with what I find useful most of the time. Does anyone here know how chrome detects the importance of the text? (I'm guessing it's based somewhat on the length of the text and how deeply nested it is in the HTML.)
- LeonidasXIV 14y agoI used Chrome for like a day untill I deactivated it (can't uninstall) and continued to use the stock browser, just because it is so mind-bogglingly ugly.
- dhruvmittal 14y agoThe thing that killed chrome for me was the way it uses the same UI as desktop chrome for browser tabs. On my nexus 7 (I can't speak for larger tablets, maybe it works there?), the tabs are simply too small for me to be precise about any interaction I have with them.
- codev 14y agoI wrote a userstyle for Firefox mobile that gets rid of the different sized text on comments and makes the whole of hn more readable: http://userstyles.org/styles/82587/hacker-news-responsive-for-firefox-mobile http://userstyles.org/styles/82587/hacker-news-responsive-fo...
- bvdbijl 14y agoThe worst thing is, you can't turn it off...