The site works fine for me on my Android device, and on my iPhone, and my PC, straight out of the box.
You DO know how to pan and zoom your device's browser, right? I really do NOT understand why anyone would set their text size on a mobile device! Exactly how is that going to make the site more usable? It seems it could ONLY mess it up -- zooming it to whatever is most comfortable to use is superior in every respect. You will virtually ALWAYS have to pan and zoom anyway. Frames being a hated feature appears to me to be flat-out wrong, unless you mean the old <frame/> tag, which has long fallen into disuse in favor of either iframes or ajax or a combination. And those are no different from any other layout feature -- you might as well pick on tables, or menus, or sidebars... But frames never were even CLOSE to being the MOST hated feature. Dunno how you'd pick, but I'm sure the BLINK tag would surely get a solid block of votes. And I'm sorry, but most browsers do NOT allow you to resize arbitrary frames. But: the particular "frames" used on this site for the reference information *are* resizable -- just not resizable on a device browser, because the gesture you'd use to do that -- scrolls the page instead. Really, the only REAL problem I could find is that the videos are using Flash rather than HTML5. My general expectation of setting the text size of any random site is that it's likely to mess it up -- sometimes a little, sometimes a lot. I can't even FIND the feature in Google Chrome -- just zoom -- and in Safari it's an option you select before you zoom, to zoom only the text. In a sense, you're right, it's "broken", if you define the ability to change the text size and have the page adjust as a requirement. However, considering how few sites really handle this, and how painful it is to support, and how few sites actually test for it -- I think it better to say that text resizing itself is broken on the web, rather than picking on any one site. BTW -- it is *NOT* frames that cause this to break. For example, the tabs, which overflow when the size grows, are <li>...</li> tags inside a <ul>...</ul> tab. The size and width of the tabs are specified by rules in the .css file. Frames have nothing whatsoever to do with this. On the other hand, when you zoom instead of tweak JUST THE TEXT SIZE, then everything properly scales. Bottom line: changing the text size is generally a poor way to make small text readable, on any platform, in any browser. There are times it can be handy, but it is dangerous territory, whereas zooming works reliably and predictably, and gives you the same experience of the page as what everyone else sees. On Oct 24, 6:44 pm, g b <[email protected]> wrote: > Please, fix the website. > > try to: increase font size and still be able to read in the 2inches > that the header does not hide. > > try to: read the website on a android device. > > to solve it, get rid of frames (really, they are frames. the most > hated feature of all browsers, it doesn't matter if you implement it > differently, the end result still smell like a frame even if you call > it a rose). > > The site today reminds me of MSDN... it's an exact copy. microsoft > could do some good in this world and sue android over that website > design so you have to change :) > > Other than that the content is excellent and I use it daily (it's just > painful :). Also I loved the open request for new articles/tutorials! > > NB: it it WERE implemented in frames, at least most of the problems > wouldn't exist as most browsers allow me to resize frames -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
