I'm on Android 2.1 on a Galaxy S. Is there away to have the default browser zoom to text boxes correctly?
I'm basically comparing how it works to the iPhone, and when I double tap on a block of text I want to read it zooms in past the width of the text box and I end up having to scroll left and right or having to pinch to zoom out a bit.
Using auto-fit sucks because it reflows the text in a very ugly way, especially if there is an image on top of the article.
Practical example: going to Gizmodo, Engadget or NYTimes and double tapping on an article in the main page. On the iphone it frames it exactly right, you can see the image and the text just fine. On my Galaxy it zooms past the text and image. I tried changing the font size but it still does it.
Is there a browser on the market that does a better job at this? I've tried Skyfire, Opera and Dolphing and they all do the same.
Why is it so hard for the browser to detect the width of the block of text I'm trying to read and zoom just to that point? It's a pain having to pinch every time I want to read something.
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It could just be me, maybe it is ment to look this way, but....
The internet explorer font is really really big. I even set the text size to "smaller". There is also an annoying scroll bar on the right corner that pops up and takes up about a quarter of the screen.
Another glitch is typing in text. For instance when I try to post something on face book you can't see the text your typing until you actually post. Seems to happen if I put in more the 5 or 6 characters.
I'm old and wear glasses but I don't need the view to be this big!
Any ideas? Besides don't use it?
Thanks.
obviously ur talking about the i.e from the newly created Ookba ROM, and i mentioned this bug to Ookba and he said he was going to try and tackle it shortly.
also, have u tried switching from "Desktop View" to "Mobile View" in i.e.?
I found a nice medium with adjusting the zoom with medium fonts.
Yes, I messed with all the settings. mobile view with smaller text, etc etc. no difference. but thanks!
yea the "let me show you where you on the page by taking up 25% of the page itself" is really annoying. Any reg key to disable this page-scrolling popup?
Is there any way to make the text *always* automatically reflow/resize when using pinch zoom-in like Dolphin Browser does? Zooming in and having the text reflow automatically I suppose I took for granted!
Paul22000 said:
Is there any way to make the text *always* automatically reflow/resize when using pinch zoom-in like Dolphin Browser does? Zooming in and having the text reflow automatically I suppose I took for granted!
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Maxthon browser does it.....
Pinch to zoom then double tap to fit text
to screen...
Hit the thanks button if I helped
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aceian said:
Maxthon browser does it.....
Pinch to zoom then double tap to fit text
to screen...
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So I guess that means no then? (Automatically reflow, ie without the double tap, as Dolphin does)
@Paul22000,
I tried both Boat(v2.3), Miren and Dolphin (v7.0). They all behave as the same. When zoom-in the page with fingers, the text will not auto-reflow. My cell phone is Android 2.3.5. It's the default design of Android.
The text will reflow when you use these browsers on Android 2.2/2.1.
Another choice, for example in Boat Browser, you can enable "Show pinch-zoom button" in preference. When zooming with the buttons, the text will reflow according to the web page scale.
Hope this could help you.
Opera Mobile automatically reflows text.
Dolphin HD rulez ...
jiyucn said:
@Paul22000,
I tried both Boat(v2.3), Miren and Dolphin (v7.0). They all behave as the same. When zoom-in the page with fingers, the text will not auto-reflow. My cell phone is Android 2.3.5. It's the default design of Android.
The text will reflow when you use these browsers on Android 2.2/2.1.
Another choice, for example in Boat Browser, you can enable "Show pinch-zoom button" in preference. When zooming with the buttons, the text will reflow according to the web page scale.
Hope this could help you.
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Weird, the text automatically reflows in Dolphin on my phone. It's instantaneous too, no double tap required.
Hi, first post.
Getting ready to upgrade from my current Galaxy S Captivate. Not sure that I want to wait for the Nexus Prime so I've been testing out the GS2. One difference I've noticed is how pinch to zoom and formatting is handled. I really like the way the Captivate handles it -- you pinch to zoom then not until you tap the screen does the text reformat USING the current text size you zoomed to. In the case of the GS2 -- pinch to zoom works the same way but when you tap the screen it makes the text smaller as it tries to fit more of the text to one screen.
Is this because of OS differences or am I missing a setting some where.
I have tried several PDF readers including Aldiko. The problem is that when I am reading a page, I need a feature which makes the text fit to my phone window. Because by default there is a lot of extra space around the text. If I zoom , scrolling become difficult as scrolling down results in scrolling the page to left/right also. Any suggested reader for my purpose?
So basically, a reader which zooms the page to custom amount but the text should not move left and right while scrolling up/down
Adobe reader
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Okay, so basically i was looking for 'text reflow' option ! Hidden gem!
It seems every webpage i load with chrome is zoomed in. I have use my fingers to zoom out like on this site the right side that shows who posted is off screen and i have to move the browser window over to see it or use my fimgers to zoom out to make it fit on screen. Any way to prevent a page from loading zoomed in ?