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by Yen 2209 days ago
Agreed. As-is, it's a poor mobile experience.

On mobile Firefox, the Reader mode does a great job of making the articles readable, though.

So, mobile-specific default CSS would probably be ideal, but this kind of site also shows off the advantages of just doing the simplest thing, and letting the agent optimize for the user.
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slx26 2209 days ago
yeah, the main page doesn't even use css, it's only html tags. you might ask the author to add viewport scaling on the <head>, even if it will kinda break the zen of the html:

   <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
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ezequiel-garzon 2208 days ago
You are right, though it is a shame a proprietary meta tag shoehorned into a CSS feature is now required to make unstyled webpages legible. With the fixed-width layouts of the 00’s there could conceivably be a justification, but never with CSS-less webpages. With all that said, I hope more people keep leaving out this tag, to remind some smartphone users that, despite all the wonders their $1000+ device can do, it doesn’t get unstyled HTML.
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Karrot_Kream 2208 days ago
I've been using a gopher mirror to browse HN on my phone recently, and I love it. Quick page loads, legible text, and easy navigation.
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