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> Why not simply inject a tiny bit of client side CSS and fix it yourself? True to the hacker spirit. Because, as the OP states, i'm on a phone.
In that case you can use Firefox Mobile and Tampermonkey addon to inject custom CSS.
I prefer it to most sites, it leaves more room for text. HN feels much more information dense than similar websites like reddit.
Your web browser is broken. Well, they all are. Browsers on small screens should be built to browse web pages on small screens. There are seemingly obvious things to do like increasing font sizes[0] and margins -- the browser decides what to do with the content, after all. But such things aren't true solutions when the page is designed for a different device / resolution / form factor[1]. Your problem is with input t…
Web browsers (and the whole touch input stack really) are already fully aware of touch precision and do very clever things to infer what you're actually trying to touch. In my experience it's already surprisingly accurate, too. Saying that making things bigger isn't a solution is nonsense. Shifting blames to browser makers is even less of a solution. Making HN 200% bigger if it detect a small screen would fix most is…
Simply making things bigger isn't a comprehensive solution (to what is a difficult user input problem, as you know), but it is something that can help, and crucially can be implemented in web browsers. I want web browsers to be less cowed by web designers/developers, to empower the users.
I'm not trying to change your mind/experience. I know that a lot of people must be similarly unaffected by such issues. Not everyone is in that privileged group, however.
Why not simply inject a tiny bit of client side CSS and fix it yourself? True to the hacker spirit.
> Why not simply inject a tiny bit of client side CSS and fix it yourself? True to the hacker spirit. Because, as the OP states, i'm on a phone.
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> Why not simply inject a tiny bit of client side CSS and fix it yourself? True to the hacker spirit. Because, as the OP states, i'm on a phone.
What a sad state of affairs that this is a successful counter argument. There no technical reason that pocket computers should be incapable of applying user styles. Alas, we allowed the advent of a new technology ratchet tighter the grasp of commercial interests over society.
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hopefully someone can create a script for phones since Firefox Nightly in Android got Tampermonkey add on
Tampermonkey is available in the stable Firefox app too, btw. Though I wish Stylus supported Firefox mobile, it's better for CSS as it only does CSS.