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I'm using Firefox on Android 4.4 as my full-time browser, it is rather good most of the time. TBH HN is the only site I can think of that gives me trouble... an

by jarek 12y ago

I'm using Firefox on Android 4.4 as my full-time browser, it is rather good most of the time. TBH HN is the only site I can think of that gives me trouble... and knowing the authors' attitude to HTML I'm prepared to accept the fault is not Firefox's.

pmontra 12y ago
There are many font inflation bugs open on Firefox mobile. One of them was opened about HN https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=707195 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=707195 in 2011. Others are about reddit. Others are about other sites. Firefox didn't grok a way to handle font inflation in a reasonable way. All the other browsers did. I quote a Firefox developer: ------ From a UX perspective, we should really try to fix this somehow. Reddit and ycombinator look terrible in our browser right now. Some examples: ycombinator http://cl.ly/0l2f2v0p3v0e290J0A0W http://cl.ly/0l2f2v0p3v0e290J0A0W Reddit http://cl.ly/1M452m2a2D3D04070S1I http://cl.ly/1M452m2a2D3D04070S1I These pages look perfectly fine in stock Browser -- they are a little wonky in Chrome but still better than us ------ https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=707195#c27 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=707195#c27 That was 2012-05-01.
- jarek 12y ago
  1) reddit renders fine for me now, zoom is consistent (Firefox 32, Android 4.4) 2) HN uses HTML straight out of 90s (tables nested three deep, spacer images to indent threads) so I don't mind them not focusing on trying to salvage it. Also from the comments thread: "to fix this we'd want to know the widths of the containers of all the text, which requires doing layout on the whole subtree (or at least a decent part of it), but we need to know the inflation numbers before we do layout. (It's probably doable by constructing reflow states for the entire subtree as we walk it, but that would be a significant performance hit that I don't think we want to take.)" Don't abuse tables and you won't have a problem.

by jarek 12y ago

pmontra 12y ago

There are many font inflation bugs open on Firefox mobile. One of them was opened about HN https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=707195 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=707195 in 2011. Others are about reddit. Others are about other sites. Firefox didn't grok a way to handle font inflation in a reasonable way. All the other browsers did. I quote a Firefox developer: ------ From a UX perspective, we should really try to fix this somehow. Reddit and ycombinator look terrible in our browser right now. Some examples: ycombinator http://cl.ly/0l2f2v0p3v0e290J0A0W http://cl.ly/0l2f2v0p3v0e290J0A0W Reddit http://cl.ly/1M452m2a2D3D04070S1I http://cl.ly/1M452m2a2D3D04070S1I These pages look perfectly fine in stock Browser -- they are a little wonky in Chrome but still better than us ------ https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=707195#c27 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=707195#c27 That was 2012-05-01.

jarek 12y ago
1) reddit renders fine for me now, zoom is consistent (Firefox 32, Android 4.4) 2) HN uses HTML straight out of 90s (tables nested three deep, spacer images to indent threads) so I don't mind them not focusing on trying to salvage it. Also from the comments thread: "to fix this we'd want to know the widths of the containers of all the text, which requires doing layout on the whole subtree (or at least a decent part of it), but we need to know the inflation numbers before we do layout. (It's probably doable by constructing reflow states for the entire subtree as we walk it, but that would be a significant performance hit that I don't think we want to take.)" Don't abuse tables and you won't have a problem.