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In the ongoing battle of site improvements and shoring up security, I finally managed to scratch a long-standing itch and signed the soylentnews.org domain. As of right now, our chain is fully validated and pushed to all our end-points.
Right now, I'm getting ready to dig in with TheMightyBuzzard to work on improving XSS protection for the site, and starting to lay out new site features (which will be in a future post). As with any meta post, I'll be reading your comments below.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 26 2016, @09:46PM
(Score: 2) by martyb on Saturday August 27 2016, @01:37AM
We are aware that rendering of SoylentNews on mobile browsers is quite poor. I can personally vouch for having many issues with Chrome on Android.
Since other sites can render well on mobile browsers, it would seem like something that we should also be able to do.
IIRC, @TheMightyBuzzard: took a stab at it once, but ran into some difficulties. Such as it being entirely possible for one person to view the site with a 19-inch monitor running at 1024x768 and someone else to view the site with a handheld 4K display. Apparently, one can make no assumptions between screen resolution and physical screen size. Add to that various rendering issues between different browsers and the rabbit hole just seems to get deeper and deeper. Further, for the most part, we try and run a lean site and have so far succeeded in avoided the need for any JavaScript to use it.
So, yes, it's a known problem, but with no clear way out. Unless there's a UI guru out there who would like to lend a hand?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 27 2016, @09:49PM
Will this help? https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Mozilla/Mobile/Viewport_meta_tag [mozilla.org]
(Score: 2) by martyb on Sunday August 28 2016, @02:00PM
Will this help? Good question!
I've seen this construct before, but never really looked into it. I followed that link, as well as: https://css-tricks.com/probably-use-initial-scale1/ [css-tricks.com] and have passed these on to TheMightyBuzzard. Hopefully he'll be able to make use of it. I might be able to play around with it a bit, but I'm working the next few days, so it may be a while before I can try anything. I've done some CSS stuff, but it is not my forté, so I can make no promises.
Thanks for passing this along!
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(Score: 2) by martyb on Tuesday August 30 2016, @02:49AM
I know it's poor form to reply to myself, but I made a quick test update to https://dev.soylentnews.org/ [soylentnews.org] and included this line in the headers:
Then reloaded the dev server's home page as well as a couple story pages... and saw no change at all in how the pages displayed. (This was using Chrome on Android.) Loaded the same pages using Pale Moon on Win 7 Pro x86; saw no changes there, either. (Yes, I did view the page source and confirmed that the code had been added.) TheMightyBuzzard looked at the site on his mobile browser and said that he did not see any change, either. At that point, I backed out the change and returned the site to its previous functionality.
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