[maibaum]

This is the most painful longform reading experience I've ever had on a computer. I am 'reading' this from a 15" MBPR at 1440x900 - default resolution.

First page load (default zoom), a single paragraph takes up the entire window. http://i.imgur.com/7gElCv9.png

Next, I try 'zooming out' twice, aka cmd-. Turns out the text doesnt reflow to fit the window, it just shrinks. This is what it looks like. http://i.imgur.com/hr98Ryi.png

As a last effort, I switched on Reader View in Safari and it only displayed the first three paragraphs of the article.

Sigh. I like Wired, and mobile is important - but not this important.

[mercer]

Without any particular opinion on the reading experience, I've been wondering about something. Why is it that quite a few pages that I use Safari's (otherwise excellent) Reader View on don't display the full article? Is it intentional? Some flawed parsing on Safari's part?

In most cases adding the article to my instapaper list solves the issue, but even there I occasionally find missing content, in particular on wikipedia pages. Which is odd, because I'd expect Instapaper to find some way to handle those well.

[rconti]

1440x900, ouch. I'm using the exact same machine and it was great at my normal 1920x1200.

You're right though, I tried the zoom-out you did, and had the same results.