On Tue, 27 Dec 2016 22:23:49 +0000, Philip McGrath <phi...@philipmcgrath.com> wrote:
>Has something changed recently in the CSS for the Racket documentation? I >thought that formerly the phone layout was equivalent to what happens if >you manually resize a desktop/laptop browser window to be quite narrow: the >sidebar / table of contents goes away and a navigation bar appears at the >top of the page (with a search box and "top"/"prev"/"up"/"next"). However, >when I just tried to simulate a smartphone viewport with the Chrome >developer tools, I got the "non-mobile friendly" behavior Michael >described. (I don't have my phone on me right now, so I haven't checked >that.) I think most devices now have too much screen resolution, even while their screens are too small to read comfortably. Viewing the web docs on a cheap ($70) 8" 1280x800 tablet, they display the same as on the desktop. Selecting (or not) "desktop site" presentation makes no difference. I really can't imagine trying to read them on something smaller. In portrait mode the text was almost too small to read, and links were FAR too small. Even with a "pencil eraser" stylus much more precise than my fingers, it was tough to work without enlarging everything. In landscape mode, everything sized reasonably ... at least with the stylus (my fingers are still too fat). But on the tablet I can only view ~20 lines at a time. That said, I'm not sure it's worth a lot of investment. In my experience, there is a lot of similarly complex documenation with the same problem. The only portable answer seems to be PDF. But we have to be careful there also: not every PDF remains inteligible in "reader" mode - it's visual structure can be lost if the author isn't careful. But more than that, I just don't see anybody trying to read the docs on a small device unless they have no choice - e.g., away from home troubleshooting a system that has no local docs - or they are just looking to kill time (riding a train, etc.). YMMV, George -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
