Re:Writing Less Code
by ebbv on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @01:33PM
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HN is terrible on my iPhone 5S. Everything is way too small, it's extremely hard to tap on names, arrows or anything else except headlines.
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For me it looks like this (on an S5 with Firefox for Android):
http://i.imgur.com/K6ov1pv.png
What does it look like for you? You might want to let [email protected] know.
It looks vaguely like that. Notice how all the menu links are clumped together? The same is true for all the action links anywhere eon the site. I may be old (38) and fat fingered, but I often will tap the wrong thing because they're just too close together and the targets are too small (plus they are text links, and not buttons.)
Actually reading text is not the worst part (though if I want to zoom at all then stuff scrolls off the page, since it won't reflow on iOS when you zoom, and browsing becomes miserable then.) The worst part is trying to interact with the site on mobile. I basically just don't do it.
Try zooming in to make the text larger for 40-year-old eyes. Doesn't work so great.
It is great on my Samsung Galaxy S. If I zoom in, long lines simply reflow to fit the screen. It means that I can dynamically adjust the font size to suit any accessibility needs or situation.
That's a pretty nice feature. Is there a browser on iOS which supports that? Safari and Chrome do not seem to reflow.
As far as I know Apple forbids people from using their own rendering engines so all you can get on ios are UI/UX differences.
Re:Writing Less Code
by jessaustin on Thursday August 18, 2016 @01:15PM
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Apple have an image to maintain. They don't want old people using iphones for web browsing.