please empty your brain below
...and I'd be fascinated to know why the code works (if it does).

diamond geezer | Homepage | 10.09.15 - 7:27 a.m. | #

I think there's a change (on Android Feedly/Chrome), but I'm not sure I remember what it looked like before. Do you have an 'old' page we can use for comparison?

dg writes: sorry, it's all or nothing

Kabson | 10.09.15 - 7:34 a.m. | #

What am I meant to be looking at? Just the last post or the whole page?

The older posts look the same.

The most recent does not seem to go all the way to the right-hand sidebar, which is annoying and looks somewhat unattractive.

But this may be coincidence?

I'm using a MacBook Pro.

Hang on! It actually looks normal on my ipad (i.e. does not stop short of the right sidebar).

So, on the first line of text on pootie it goes from "At ... line of" (and then there is a gap of an inch).

on paddy the text goes from "at ... I've" (with only a small and normal looking gap).

I preferred it how it was, I think.

Antipodean | 10.09.15 - 8:47 a.m. | #

It just loads up fully zoomed in, rather than fully zoomed out, so I still have to resize anyway. On an iPhone 5.

Williams119 | 10.09.15 - 8:54 a.m. | #

Very slightly worse, so (c) on a Fairphone v1.
Text is still the right size, but now slightly shifted right so I have just to slide left a bit. No real problem.

Bob Lindsay-Smith | 10.09.15 - 9:29 a.m. | #

Never looked at it before on a mobile. On my Android it initially loads up with the right hand side of the text not visible. Tapping the screen sizes it correctly.

| 10.09.15 - 9:59 a.m. | #

Well I'm using a mac and 2/3rds of the screen is totally blank so if this occurs on one of your longer pieces it's not going to look as acceptable as it did before

Dave B | 10.09.15 - 10:43 a.m. | #

@ Dave B .. me too... but it is hard to tell whether this is because of the code change or the way that DG set out the post, except for the first line, which is clearly part of a long sentence that *should* span the screen.

dg writes: The whole blog has been modified, not just today's post.

Antipodean | 10.09.15 - 11:31 a.m. | #

Ah, maybe the Google cache will help.

If so, a little worse on my android phone.

Kabson | 10.09.15 - 12:36 p.m. | #

Interestingly different result. Chrome on android tablet (hudl 2/KitKat 4.4) looked better than before. Sized exactly to width in both portrait and landscape without any action on my part. However on my phone (Nexus 4/Lollipop 5.1.1) has the issues as reported by other Android users on the 'worse'comments thread. Overzoomed to cover half the text on portrait and landscape. Seems the same (ie no change) on Firefox on Windows 10.

Fat Boy Pete | 10.09.15 - 9:03 p.m. | #

I'd like to enlarge the size of the print in the comments box. Is this possible? At present I copy and paste the comments on to a blank page before I read them.

Great Aunt Annie | 10.09.15 - 9:33 p.m. | #

@ Great Aunt Annie

Have you tried "Ctrl +"? Works for me!

Grumpy Anon | 11.09.15 - 2:03 a.m. | #

On my Android phone, with yesterday's change, it loaded too zoomed in to read properly, and now it's back to normal it loads zoomed out a bit too far too read properly. Either way, if I double-tap the main column of text, it becomes readable.

martin | 11.09.15 - 6:54 a.m. | #

And now it's been backed out the hudl2 tablet behaves exactly the same as the phone, e.g. zoomed in.

Fat Boy Pete | 11.09.15 - 7:20 a.m. | #

Thanks very much, Grumpy Anon. You've made my day!

Great Aunt Annie | 11.09.15 - 8:28 a.m. | #

thanks Great Aunt Annie and Grumpy Anon - you've supplied the solution to a niggle I never thought to mention

Caroline | 11.09.15 - 10:34 a.m. | #

I hadn't really noticed how it ran on a smartphone before because I don't usually access that way, but I thought I'd look at what it's like now you've reverted, and what I see is full screen) with side bar) but microscopic. But that's what the zoom function is for.
(Yesterday it was readable size but wrongly centred so I had to pan across).

timbo | 11.09.15 - 10:48 a.m. | #

@ Great Aunt Annie/Caroline

You welcome. Everyday is a chance to learn something new ;)

Grumpy Anon | 11.09.15 - 3:23 p.m. | #

No option for "Err, bit of both" ;)

Andrew Bowden | Homepage | 11.09.15 - 7:26 p.m. | #

I was one of those requesting the extra line of code. I had a busy Thursday and didn't catch up with your blog until Friday afternoon, so, alas, I missed the opportunity to see how it would have looked. Pity that it was such a fleeting experiment.

Oddly, some of the comments in the b) it reads better section are negative, and vice versa for c) it reads worse which may have skewed DG's assessment.

Also, it may be that readers have set up the browsers in their phones/tablets to optimise for (older) sites that haven't been updated to use the viewport tag, these sites being in the majority even now. Hence why font size etc doesn't seem to work with the additional code. In the fullness of time, I suspect this might change as more non-personal sites (and default Wordpress/Blogger/Blogspot/&c templates) will be written with the viewport tag.

shirokazan | 13.09.15 - 12:55 p.m. | #

Perhaps the moral of this story is to try keep things so that they reach the maximium amount of people possible instead of "improving" things for a couple of people. "If it not broke don't try to fix-it" comes to mind also. That being said hope no one still on "dial-up"...

E | 13.09.15 - 7:45 p.m. | #











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