This website is even difficult to read on a regular desktop browser (too wide, downvoted comments increasingly impossible to read causing eye strain). I recommend using your own content script with Chrome. This may not help on your iPad but on Android you can use Firefox with your own userscript. It's the only way I can tolerate it.
It would probably take a competent someone a few hours to fix the readability issues of this site but they just never get around to it.
Edit:
Here's a link to what all comments look like for me, even if they're downvoted:
Hm, I’d be happy with some max-width:50em or so on the actual text. Now if only Firefox had a built-in way to apply custom user stylesheets to websites…
Sarcastic, yes, but mostly relating to Opera 12.x’s UserCSS features; I didn’t actually know about userContent.css. Thanks for the pointer, although it seems to be impossible to only apply it to certain sites?
Personally, I like the fact the traditional web design in which HN adjusts the line to screen width rather than imposing a width.
Its just that it ruins the experience on mobile devices because you can't resize the window and zooming doesn't reflow the text.
for what it's worth, I don't really have a problem with it. They provide an API and there are like 90 billion ycombinator mobile apps to choose from which do a better job.
The Original article seems to mis-quote browser marketshare. They have IE10 listed as 3% of the market and "Other" as 36%? And all the IE's combined for 19% market share? Everything I've seen (except the original article) list the IE's at a combined market share somewhere in the neighborhood of 50-70%., with IE8 still having a dominant 15-20%.
> Regarding HN being too wide, why don't you narrow your browser window?
Narrow my browser window because this one site makes it difficult to read? I could do that, or I could just use a content script and leave my browser at the width I prefer. I maximize my browser for distraction free reading.
Eight,I'm sure I'm going to resize my browser just to read HN and then maximize it again when I navigate away to a site which uses a sane content width. No need to be an apologist. I like the content here,but the design in many respects,is awful (expired links anyone?).
Oftentimes, narrowing HN below 1280px is still not enough as the content then scrolls sideways, so there is a very good argument for putting a width on content that doesn't adjust to the window size properly.
I just downloaded Opera for Android because of this, but no, it does not work as the old android browser did. Or do I need to adjust a setting for this somewhere?
I don't think a screen reader would pick up the down-voted comments as different from other comments. So, it's still broken from an accessibility standpoint.
It would probably take a competent someone a few hours to fix the readability issues of this site but they just never get around to it.
Edit:
Here's a link to what all comments look like for me, even if they're downvoted:
http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/v5zcn9n4vg4m3cn/2014-06-1...
I also disabled scores and voting because I dislike that stuff.
This is the home page:
http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/sicqor50smsl4hx/2014-06-1...