Breaking the Web - justinjackson.ca

https://justinjackson.ca

I like Justin's writing. I like his elegantly-designed, simple blog theme or look.

I like his use of the Google monospace font Roboto Mono.

But when viewing his site on a phone, he employs too much spacing in the margins. I don't understand why this is done. It creates an extremely narrow column of text. It looks odd.

In my opinion, his text could stretch a little closer to the sides, and the reading experience would be improved or at least not hampered. It would look better from an aesthetic standpoint.

He can get away with using a narrow column of text on the phone because he also uses a font size that is too small. The text is still readable, but I don't understand the thinking by many or most publishers to shrink the font size for small screens. I think someone started

JR: in my opinion, he should wider text lines and a larger font size for the phone display. but what's really obnoxious is the fact that he prevents users from double-tapping the screen or zooming to increase the font size.
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JR: since he has margin space to use, i figured that i would zoom to fill the screen. that would increase the font size. but nope. he prohibits what should be a basic user functionality. he interferes with MY web browsing experience. he's not alone in doing this, unfortunately.
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JR: #web #design #moronism
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JR: too may people design irritatingly.
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JR: in the meta tag, this is all good except for the "maximum-scale" setting, which prevents pinching and zooming. for shame. ----- : name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1
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JR: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Mobile/Viewport_meta_tag
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