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When looking at a desktop sized web page such as old Reddit, most likely an entry's title won't fit horizontally on the screen. What some browsers do (and I really dislike) is that they somehow guess what's important on the page, and bump those elements' font size in ridiculous ways, while leaving others as they are. I believe this is called font inflation, or text size adjustment. This makes it so the title of a Reddit post becomes huge, while the 'see comments' button below it stays ridiculously tiny and unclickable. Other browsers just don't care, leave the text in desktop-like proportions, and when you zoom in you end up needing to scroll sideways back and forth to read a sentence, quite cumbersome. The most reasonable solution is Opera's where if you're on a desktop like site and you zoom to a block of text, it allows the letters to increase in size naturally according to your pinching, but when you let go it reflows the text block and makes it wrap once a line (at its new zoom level) reaches your phone's screen width. This way if you see a long paragraph (or Reddit title, for example), you can zoom until the text is readable, and then only need to scroll up and down, instead of sideways as well, without compromising the original site's design by wonking up the font sizes at (apparently) random. I'm not sure I did the best job at explaining it, but basically the goal is to be able to zoom into small text on desktop-like pages until I'm comfortable with the size, and then make it wrap to the screen's width so you don't need to scroll sideways to read the text. Easiest demo is to download Opera on Android, go to old.reddit.com and zoom around. Once you get used to it, every other browser becomes annoying. Edit: lol, after typing all that I thought of looking up a video and here it is. Looks like some phone's default browsers already do it well too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAWTd9h1lbI |