x...@dr.com writes: > The "viewport" meta tag significantly improves readability and > usability on my phone when I add it to http://man.openbsd.org pages: > > [meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"] > > It was suggested to me by a Microsoft Edge engineer as a fix for > mobile-unfriendly web sites. It was apparently invented by Apple > however, and is also recommended by Mozilla. > > Mozilla and Safari docs: > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Mobile/Viewport_meta_tag > https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/UsingtheViewport/UsingtheViewport.html > > My test results: > - Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 Mobile (phone): significant improvement > > - Chrome on OpenBSD-current: unaffected > - Firefox on OpenBSD-current: unaffected > - Lynx on OpenBSD-current: unaffected > - Microsoft Edge on Windows 10: unaffected > - Internet Explorer on Windows 10: unaffected > > My test site (with before/after html and screenshots): > https://viewports.github.io/ > > I hope and suspect that this will improve things for other small > screen devices too -- such as Android and iOS phones -- but I am > unable to test that.
You can try gopher://perso.pw/ to read man pages through gopher. It's totally up to the client to define how to display it. DiggieDog on android works fine.
