On Thursday, 28 November 2019 at 04:23:21 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
(Abscissa) wrote:
1. I find the text size to be exactly what I wish most sites
would use. Most sites just assume everyone's on some kind of
"Apple iSuperMini for Oompa-Loompas With The Fingers of
Five-Year-Olds" and crank up the font size to absurd levels to
compensate. The result is not merely an enormously waste of
screen real-estate on a form factor notorious for every last
millimeter being crucial, but the fonts themselves actually
manage to be uncomfortably large to read in the first place.
The problem you describe my be a real one, but the solution
presented by this version of the forum is not any better because
it makes the text very hard to read on devices with high pixel
density. It is possible to have the fontsize depend on the
devices pixel density, which would be a much better solution.
2. The only reason extra margins would be needed on the actual
post-viewing pages would be as a workaround for those goofy
phones with the nonsensical misfeature of "edge-to-edge"
screens the manufacturers have been trying to push (just
because they can, and because they figure its harder for their
competitors to copy). Handheld touchscreens obviously
need borders (that's just basic HCI common-sense), and requests
for applications/websites to add them back in just proves its
nothing more than a glaring flaw of the phone itself. People
with better practicality-oriented phones shouldn't have to
sacrifice their own perfectly usable real estate just because
of some *other* phones' MBA-driven lunacy.
That is missing the point in my opinion. Margins are important
for visual separation and to create focus. My iPhone 8 has
borders around the screen, but having text stick directly to this
border makes it very hard to read. Having an additional white
border is much more comfortable. This is also something that has
been established for a very long time. There is a reason that
basically every medium in existence uses margins like that (e.g.
books, newspapers, etc.)
