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Re: js-info disabling sidebar for narrow windows (experimental)
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Gavin Smith |
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Re: js-info disabling sidebar for narrow windows (experimental) |
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Thu, 18 Feb 2021 19:24:00 +0000 |
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On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 08:05:42AM -0800, Raymond Toy wrote:
> >>>>> "Per" == Per Bothner <per@bothner.com> writes:
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> Per> A goal was to automatically switch to "narrow" mode on
> Per> smartphones, that isn't working yet. (Smartphone browsers tend
> Per> to do magic things with "viewport" and zooming, and dealing
> Per> with that needs some more research and experimentation.)
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> Yeah, that would be awesome. When I view the html version of some
> texinfo docs, the display is rather messed up with tiny fonts in some
> cases. For example, https://cmucl.org/docs/cmu-user/html/index.html
> looks great on desktop, but the stuff at the very bottom renders in
> super tiny fonts on my phone.
This the font "boosting" issue.
This issue should have been dealt with in two ways. First, in the
current development version, a <table> element is not used to lay out
a menu by default (set with the FORMAT_MENU option).
I had also thought it had been fixed after this discussion.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2020-03/msg00007.html
> I suggest adding
> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1">
> to the standard HTML <head>...</head> block. This will make the result
> noticeably better on mobile/pads and is, so far as I have seen, harmless
> on larger screens.
It would be worth checking that both of these changes have happened
properly.