The discussion revolves around properly increasing text size on mobile devices. jidanni shares a personal experience where pinching to zoom makes text larger, but it goes off the edge of the screen. He wishes it would work like some desktop websites, where text rearranges itself when zoomed in.
jidanni’s grand nephew suggests going into Chrome settings to adjust the zoom ratio. However, omarfilip points out that zoom and text size are different, with text size being a browser function, equivalent to Ctrl-+. He shares examples of how Mobile Safari and Chrome for iOS handle text size.
Firepup650 notes that most sites do not respond to pinch zooming. jidanni apologizes for his unclear topic title and acknowledges that he does not know the technical terms for the features he is discussing.
Lilly appreciates jidanni’s willingness to ask questions, which may help other users. thoka suggests an alternative method to increase text size by choosing different text sizes in the user preferences.
The words get bigger, yes it’s true. But then they go off the edge of the screen.
So grandpa says to himself, “Why doesn’t it work like on some websites on desktop when the words kind of rearrange themselves when you zoom in, you know with Control Plus and everything?”
But then his grand nephew tells him
Everybody knows that you are supposed to go into your Chrome settings and adjust your zoom ratio. Sure you might say, “Isn’t that a bother?” Well tough luck Grandpa. I shouldn’t have given you a cell phone for Christmas.
I’m sorry about my bad titles. I might be real good at creating the content but the titles might need somebody to come along afterwards and fix them up. Because I don’t even know the names of what I’m talking about usually.
