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Off topic: This site is next to unreadable on my phone. Zigzagscrolling is an insult to the audience.

by th4tg41 3y ago

k1t 3y ago
It looks fine to me. (Firefox / Android)
sosodev 3y ago
It's perfectly readable on my phone and with various device dimensions set in my desktop browser.
quyleanh 3y ago
Me too. Using Safari on iPhone now. Is it intended?
exodust 3y ago
Problems on ultrawide desktop too (severe horizontal scrolling). To partially fix, open dev tools and change the body tag's display:grid to display:block. I'm not sure how you can stuff up a single column HTML article, but they've managed to.
xorcist 3y ago
The line length is hilarious. Press the little book icon (or F9 in Firefox desktop), it fixes this just as it fixes so many other unreadable web sites. Luckily our clients aren't completely strangled yet so this still works. How meta considering the subject.
underwater 3y ago
If Safari supported extensions then you'd have the ability to resolve this by installing something like Readability. If iOS supported other browsers then you could read it in a Chromium based browser, where it appears completely readable.
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- zimpenfish 3y ago
  > If Safari supported extensions iOS Safari does support extensions. I've got a handful installed on my phone right now, including Userscripts to apply custom formatting and styling to this website.
- nottorp 3y ago
  But why should you need extensions to go around some site disrespecting you?
- latexr 3y ago
  Safari does support extensions. And it has built-in Reader mode. And it needs none of that for this case since the website loads perfectly fine with no zigzagging required. What Apple is doing sucks, for sure, but let’s not lose sight of reality and make stuff up or misinform people.
  - 93po 3y ago
    Show me how to get ublock origin on safari in iOS. You can’t, and this is basically the top extension anyone wants, and so your blanket statement is also misinforming
    - latexr 3y ago
      I didn’t say it supports all extensions from all browsers. Thanks to manifest v3 uBlock Origin will also not be viable on what is by far the most popular browser. Will you also say Google Chrome doesn’t support extensions then? It’s not like Safari can’t do ad blocking. It can, and solutions like 1Blocker are quite capable. It can even block at the system level, which is more than uBlock Origin in the browser does. Either way, none of this is relevant to your first comment. Extensions aren’t even necessary for the original complaint. Please don’t move the goalposts.
      - 93po 3y ago
        Saying iOS safari can do extensions is like saying North Korea is a democracy, and me pointing out that it really isn’t is not moving the goal posts And yes I agree with your example, I would no longer say chrome does extensions as a blanket statement. I’d say it has restricted extension functionality.
    - turquoisevar 3y ago
      What a weak argument. So because uBlock Origin refuses to make an extension for iOS, extensions don’t exist? I use Wipr, and it’s been better than the beloved uBlock has ever been.
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rezonant 3y ago
It looks completely fine on my phone, what browser are you using? Did you perhaps leave Desktop Mode on? Since Alex is here in the comments, I'm sure he'd reply if he had fixed something between each of us reading it.

Off topic: This site is next to unreadable on my phone. Zigzagscrolling is an insult to the audience.

k1t 3y ago

It looks fine to me. (Firefox / Android)

sosodev 3y ago

It's perfectly readable on my phone and with various device dimensions set in my desktop browser.

quyleanh 3y ago

Me too. Using Safari on iPhone now. Is it intended?

exodust 3y ago

Problems on ultrawide desktop too (severe horizontal scrolling). To partially fix, open dev tools and change the body tag's display:grid to display:block. I'm not sure how you can stuff up a single column HTML article, but they've managed to.

xorcist 3y ago

The line length is hilarious. Press the little book icon (or F9 in Firefox desktop), it fixes this just as it fixes so many other unreadable web sites. Luckily our clients aren't completely strangled yet so this still works. How meta considering the subject.

underwater 3y ago

If Safari supported extensions then you'd have the ability to resolve this by installing something like Readability. If iOS supported other browsers then you could read it in a Chromium based browser, where it appears completely readable.

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zimpenfish 3y ago
> If Safari supported extensions iOS Safari does support extensions. I've got a handful installed on my phone right now, including Userscripts to apply custom formatting and styling to this website.
nottorp 3y ago
But why should you need extensions to go around some site disrespecting you?
latexr 3y ago
Safari does support extensions. And it has built-in Reader mode. And it needs none of that for this case since the website loads perfectly fine with no zigzagging required. What Apple is doing sucks, for sure, but let’s not lose sight of reality and make stuff up or misinform people.
- 93po 3y ago
  Show me how to get ublock origin on safari in iOS. You can’t, and this is basically the top extension anyone wants, and so your blanket statement is also misinforming
  - latexr 3y ago
    I didn’t say it supports all extensions from all browsers. Thanks to manifest v3 uBlock Origin will also not be viable on what is by far the most popular browser. Will you also say Google Chrome doesn’t support extensions then? It’s not like Safari can’t do ad blocking. It can, and solutions like 1Blocker are quite capable. It can even block at the system level, which is more than uBlock Origin in the browser does. Either way, none of this is relevant to your first comment. Extensions aren’t even necessary for the original complaint. Please don’t move the goalposts.
    - 93po 3y ago
      Saying iOS safari can do extensions is like saying North Korea is a democracy, and me pointing out that it really isn’t is not moving the goal posts And yes I agree with your example, I would no longer say chrome does extensions as a blanket statement. I’d say it has restricted extension functionality.
  - turquoisevar 3y ago
    What a weak argument. So because uBlock Origin refuses to make an extension for iOS, extensions don’t exist? I use Wipr, and it’s been better than the beloved uBlock has ever been.
    - 3y ago

rezonant 3y ago

It looks completely fine on my phone, what browser are you using? Did you perhaps leave Desktop Mode on? Since Alex is here in the comments, I'm sure he'd reply if he had fixed something between each of us reading it.