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To add to this, Hacker News does not display well in either Chrome for Android or Firefox for Android[0], so it's not like it's only Servo (or even only Firefox

To add to this, Hacker News does not display well in either Chrome for Android or Firefox for Android[0], so it's not like it's only Servo (or even only Firefox) that has issues. [0] Notice the inconsistent sizes of comments (which actually does not always even correlate with nested depth): https://www.dropbox.com/s/b47lhe3px83wq9j/2015-05-01%2019.29.11.png?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/b47lhe3px83wq9j/2015-05-01%2019.29...

Manishearth 11y ago
Oh, that was happening on IE mobile and I just assumed it was their way of showing the post score on a mobile phone. Didn't realize it was a bug :)
adapt_throw 11y ago
Mobile browsers attempt to make content more prominent than navigation. This matters a lot on e.g. mobile news sites. Unfortunately the algorithm they use breaks horribly on comment threads, because it decides that long comments are content, while short comments are not important. (At least, this is my deduction from seeing it in action.) You'll see it on reddit, forum threads, and here on HN -- so this is not exactly a layout bug, but a problem with how Firefox/Chrome try to apply some simple semantics to web content.
jsnell 11y ago
That's a feature ("font boosting"). It's a total mystery to me how something working so badly could ship, especially since the Android Webkit fork had a similar feature working perfectly. But apparently it's of "acceptable quality" in Chrome https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84186#c24 https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84186#c24
- pcwalton 11y ago
  The basic problem is that it's hard to tell the difference between nested tables used for nested tabular content and nested tables being (ab)used for layout, as HN does.
pmontra 11y ago
Sadly true. That's why I'm not using Firefox on android despite using it on the desktop. They never got the right algorithm for font inflation (that's how they call it). HN displays ok in Opera Android but mostly because Opera can reflow text on zoom. That fixes almost everything.

Manishearth 11y ago

Oh, that was happening on IE mobile and I just assumed it was their way of showing the post score on a mobile phone. Didn't realize it was a bug :)

adapt_throw 11y ago

Mobile browsers attempt to make content more prominent than navigation. This matters a lot on e.g. mobile news sites. Unfortunately the algorithm they use breaks horribly on comment threads, because it decides that long comments are content, while short comments are not important. (At least, this is my deduction from seeing it in action.) You'll see it on reddit, forum threads, and here on HN -- so this is not exactly a layout bug, but a problem with how Firefox/Chrome try to apply some simple semantics to web content.

jsnell 11y ago

That's a feature ("font boosting"). It's a total mystery to me how something working so badly could ship, especially since the Android Webkit fork had a similar feature working perfectly. But apparently it's of "acceptable quality" in Chrome https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84186#c24 https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84186#c24

pcwalton 11y ago
The basic problem is that it's hard to tell the difference between nested tables used for nested tabular content and nested tables being (ab)used for layout, as HN does.

pmontra 11y ago

Sadly true. That's why I'm not using Firefox on android despite using it on the desktop. They never got the right algorithm for font inflation (that's how they call it). HN displays ok in Opera Android but mostly because Opera can reflow text on zoom. That fixes almost everything.