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Re:YouTube change served lower-quality video to Firefox 43 f... by pmontra on Monday January 11, 2016 @05:09AM (#10879923)
I already commented about this issue at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10879874

To elaborate it further, the problem common to every browser I tried (the only one missing is Safari) is that comments are nested and if I zoom the page to be actually able to read the text, I have to pain points now:

1) I have to keep scrolling right and left to keep them in view as I scroll vertically to follow the threads.

2) Even if 1 were not bad enough, the comments are too wide now to fit into the screen (remember that I zoomed in) and I have to horizontally scroll at each line. The only browser not to suffer from that is Opera which reflows text after a zoom (if you enable that option). I'm left with problem 1 but it's the least painful.

I suspect that a div layout would fare better, still there are tons of blogs with div layouts that end up with 10px wide comments at deep nesting levels. Maybe some media queries to remove nesting for devices not wide enough and adapt the page width after a zoom? I don't even know if the latter is possible.

Edit: I checked on the desktop and it seems that you already reduce nesting when the screen width is reduced, to the point of removing it at all. I wonder why my tablet and my browser are not affected and keep displaying the indentation to the left. Any browser, any user agent (desktop or mobile). They're 1600x2560px and 480x800px.

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