Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser?
by DanBC on Monday August 17, 2015 @05:23AM
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MOBILE: when I zoom a page the browser should treat this the same as if I change the window size on a desktop browser, and reflow the text. Mobile browsing is a really lousy horrible experience because there are some conflicting philosophies.
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Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser?
by mod50ack on Monday August 17, 2015 @05:24AM
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That should be an option. For example in my experience that kind of thing would be devastating to me
Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser?
by vardump on Monday August 17, 2015 @06:00AM
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No. It should actually limit horizontal reflow width inside element to screen width. That way you can always read a passage of text by using only vertical scrolling.
In other words, a block element's internal flow width should be restricted to screen width, so that a row of inline elements inside that block can never be wider than screen width.
In other words, text columns should flow at screen width.
Just doing what desktop browsers do would squish the text in a very narrow space. Not desirable.
For me, this is the single most important feature in a mobile (phone) browser.