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Basically all of iOS has the tiny-text problem (on iPhone, at least) - both Safari and Chrome have zoom that doesn't reflow text, so you either have to read something tiny or frantically scroll left and right to read each line. It gives me a headache, and this is the first thing that's made me think about switching back to Android.


To be fair, mobile Safari does have the Readability-like 'Reader' mode that presents articles' text reflowed to fit comfortably on the iPhone's screen.


Usually it is not a problem because text-block width is a fraction of total page width. The text has around newspaper-column number of characters in a row so the zoom hides navigation and advertisement and makes the page readable.

The rest is fixed by "read later" button if content is worth it or "back" button if it is not.


>both Safari and Chrome have zoom that doesn't reflow text

What?! (That doesn't seem right...?)


It's not right, but it's true. No reflow on zoom in the iOS browser or WebViews




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