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Basically, if it doesn't happen on your PC browser (here), it's probably the phone's fault.

"Jump to unread" doesn't work in that either, does it?
And, of course, it fucks our log.

I bought Tapatalk when I was offline for a month because I couldn't read the mobile version due to text size like this

It does on my phone, didn't on the iPhone.

Yeah, style 16 isn't at all buggy and shit.

Urg, style 16 can fuck off and die.

Bloody iPodders.

Is that too small?
I can easily make it bigger.

But then you can just zoom in

No you can't. The page width is fixed to the device width with 'user-scalable' set to 'no'; no zooming of any kind.

The text is too small in that screenshot, but that was never the issue for me. It was the inconsistency of the text sizes; some tiny, some huge, some normal. I had a play around in the CSS and couldn't for the life of me trace the fault. Though I am, admittedly, shit.

If you zoom in, you need to keep panning the screen back-and-forth to read each line. Very tedious.

Not on the mobile version of the browser you can't. Also, that image is close to twice the size of an iPhone screen.

No it isn't. You can merrily test that by resizing it in a PC browser.
[edit] Wait, well, yes it is. But it's meant to be. Does the iPhone not recalculate 100% when you zoom in?


Whatnow? Is that some odd meta content I have to put in the head?

Yep. It only affects mobile browsers, I think.

So I want to put "yes"?

Huh - I must have put that in for a reason. Let's see what it was

Ahem:

No changes on the Android version. iPhoners?

All of this is your fault, of course.

It take it back - Android doesn't resize the page when you zoom in - it does, however, line break the text so you still get it all in the visible area. ([edit] This might be the result of changing that metatag, though)

Is a better mobile theme something that people would actually use, or would I be wasting my time fixing it?

Yes, we can now zoom the pan every. Single. Line. Is that what you Android users do?

Nope. The browser line breaks at the end. You have to scroll to get buttons though.

I can live with that.

I'm not going to urge you to fix it. I find native apps—as belmingly broken as they may be—a lot nicer to use.

I do this


Edit - It is, admittedly, unusable in portrait mode.

There's no real reason why they should be - they're only doing it that way (as opposed to building a theme) so they can charge you.

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They already have my money, so I might as well poke them to do the hard work.

I do wish this forum software would have a proper API instead of having to write custom plugins, though, so somebody could do a decent job of it.

There is that, but the whole forum is open-source, so they haven't got that much of an excuse.
Also, like I said, they could easily do most of what they do using themes and shit.

Sure, but it's a lot harder to monetise that -- and it's a non-trivial amount of work, so why shouldn't they monetise it?

Because it doesn't fucking work.

Also, things on the Internet should be free, blah blah blah.

Ah, yes, the execution of the idea is lacking in all the apps I've seen so far -- but that doesn't make the idea itself bad.

And you work for free, right?

This appears to have nothing to do with the fact that things on the Internet should be free.

Indeed.

I have seen that video before. It's very good, and quite eye-opening.

Can I get a back on topic Hell Yeah, by the way?
There's probably some legs in the "shit on the Internet should be free" conversation if some mod wants to get their split on.

Things I have taken from this thread : Browsing on the iPhone is horribly broken. I get none of the issues you complain about.

It's still fine on Safari. But if you use a buggy app you have your positives and negatives.

Screenshots in this thread suggest not.

Anecdotal evidence suggests I have never seen any of the problems on my phone.

No weird text-size and stuff like that?

People need to find out what Mr Russ is doing different

Are you talking about the standard or mobile site? The former is fine, the latter not.

The IUI site is rubbish; it doesn't jump-to-unread because of a bug in the Labyrinth JavaScript library. The other, older mobile site has various small glitches and is what I'm taking screenshots of. In particular, text often is too small, and zooming it does no re-wrap lines on Mobile Safari (but it does on Android). This last thing might be fixable.

The normal site works alright on the iPhone, but it doesn't render well on small screens; tap targets and text are often too small without a lot of zooming and panning. It's not unusable but it is sub-optimal. I fail to see how that can be any different on Android phones with similar screen size to the iPhone.

Have you done something to the mobile site today then? Normally on my Desire the mobile site is readable without having to zoom. Today it's changed.

AT LAST. EQUALITY!

Seems to have broken the next unread post button for me to.

That'll be it then. I never use the mobile version of the site.

Amusingly, with the default browser on my comparatively shitey Nokia E63 the three different sites work fine. Picture threads end up a bit shit though as it sticks scroll bars in & you can only see 1/4 of the picture at any one time

I doubt that very much.

Fuck knows why the text has got smaller, I made it bigger

You may doubt, but it's true. The button takes me to the first post on the last page.

It doesn't do it on a browser. What phone have you got?

You're clicking the icon, not the text, right? Actually, you must be, otherwise you'd get first post on the first page.

First post on the last page is "you're up to date with this thread already".

Desire with Cyanogenmod. Worked fine until you made changes earlier today. I'm clicking the icon, for sure.

Would it be a big hassle to undo whatever change was made to the mobile site yesterday? It was fine before but it's verging on unusable now