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Geek Culture / A suggestion for the forum layout

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The Zoq2
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Posted: 10th Jun 2013 00:01
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I recently worked on some webdesign for mobile devices and by accident I came across something that could help this forum on mobile devices. Basicaly, when I view this page in chrome for android, the size of the text is very incosistent as you can see here. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B-ZjOK5GhXS_bEFHQmUyT3BSZmc/edit?usp=sharing

When i was working on my mobile version I found that I have the exact same problem and it appears that the fix is to replace the "px" unit for text sizes with "em". One em = 12px. As a bonus it will also make the zooming on the page better. The change shouldn't take so long so hopefully someone on TGC can make the change.
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Indicium
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Posted: 10th Jun 2013 00:21
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Chrome sucks on android, ironic? I use boat browser mini and I don't have this problem.


They see me coding, they hating. http://indi-indicium.blogspot.co.uk/
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mr Handy
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Posted: 10th Jun 2013 00:21
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Change your buggy browser.

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Phaelax
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Posted: 10th Jun 2013 11:58
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Quote: "One em = 12px."


1 em is equal to the current font size of the document. So it's not always going to be 12px.


I made a mobile version of the forum a few years back. They didn't have any interest in supporting a mobile site.
http://zimnox.com/tgc/

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Libervurto
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Posted: 11th Jun 2013 00:49
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Quote: "Chrome sucks on android, ironic? I use boat browser mini and I don't have this problem."


Quote: "Change your buggy browser."


These are not things that coders should be saying. If there is a way to improve compatibility then it should be done.

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Indicium
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Posted: 11th Jun 2013 00:53
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I think that the work needs to be done on Chrome's end, not the web developers.


They see me coding, they hating. http://indi-indicium.blogspot.co.uk/
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mr Handy
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Posted: 11th Jun 2013 01:55 Edited at: 11th Jun 2013 01:55
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Quote: "If there is a way to improve compatibility then it should be done."

Fix bug in the browser or "fix" all "incompatible" sites in the Internet? Hmm...

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Phaelax
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Posted: 11th Jun 2013 03:11
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Should developers have to make work-arounds for features that should already work? No. But do we need to? Most definitely. It's only your end-users that are hurt. You want your website to reach the broadest possible audience, you'll make the fixes whether you feel you should need to or not.

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