On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 04:36:36PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 08:39:50AM -0300, Fernando de Oliveira wrote:
> > 
> > I believe that this is completely lost. Therefore, I cannot see why do
> > the modification.
> > 
> > Yesterday I tried it in a phone and and a tablet. It is all mixed, body
> > behind the icons and links, a double tap makes it almost impossible to
> > be used. Screen is completely cluttered, nobody knows what is what.
> > 
> 
> How do you manage to get to the new version ?  On my (android) phone
> the default browser (chrome, I suppose) opens at google with nowhere
> to type a URL, only a field in which to type a search expression.
> So, I have now installed firefox - I can get a field to type in, but
> the keyboard does not offer a tilde, and that makes it impossible to
> type the ~bdubbs part of the address.
> 
Never mind, I've found it : hold down a key to see what special
options are available (accents on letters, currency symbols on
dollar).  But for other extras such as tilde, go to the numeric
choice, hold down <\= or something like that (where shift is on the
alphabetic map) and I get a whole load of other symbols including ~.

Yes, zooming in puts the text behind the navigation icons with the
new stylesheets.

If I use my phone upright, the default text is readable (with my
glasses on), but the command boxes are of course far too narrow.
They do scroll (without scrolling the rest of the text sideways),
even though no scrollbar is visible.

If i put the phone in landscape mode it mostly reads ok - but i have
to scroll some way down to get a '>' navigation icon.  On page 6.4 I
keep having to scroll and and down to get the '>' to return (it does
not show once I have scrolled down past the middle of the Note at the
bottom).  Hmm, that seems to be generally true - need to scroll (or
swipe) up a bit, then down until it appears.  Of course, the same
problem if I zoom the text.

Then I tried the current LFS book in landscape mode:

1. On the index, it is possible to scroll a long way to the right,
so that all the text disappears and all I see if a white background.

2. On the pages, the text is too small to read withou difficulty.
Zooming works, but for the text part I have to keep scrolling to
right and then to left to read it.

3. The navigation links are easy to find.

(In landscape mode the current version is more or less unusable -
text tiny, and when zoomed in the screen is too narrow to be able to
read more than a word or two.)

If I had to read the book on my mobile, I would be in two minds
about either set of stylesheets.  I have heard of commercial sites
using different stylesheets for mobiles (or sometimes different
sites, e.g. m.foo.com instead of www.foo.com) but I have no idea what
that involves.  Too me, stylesheets are at the far edge of magic, verging
into sourcery (think Discworld - sourcery is ++ungood).

Oh dear, I can see that my mobile bill might be going up now that
I've got a decent browser on it, found where the rest of the
keyboard went to, and (hopefully) configured k9 to send plain text.

ĸen
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