On: The Undocumented Microsoft “Rich” Header (2018)

[jes]

I was hoping to read this article on my iPhone. But the darn thing won’t narrow and stay narrowed so that it can be read without scrolling left and right to read each line.

Is it specific to me or is this some behavior specific to this site?

[Item_Boring → jes]

I had the same issue but switching to reader view “fixed it“ :)

[lelandfe → jes]

It's because all the text is inside of a big table and there are several long rows. Combined, that means that the text can't really be resized below 1250px.

Don't use tables for design, folks.

[martin_a → lelandfe]

> Don't use tables for design, folks.

Wow, feels like 15 years ago, when everybody moved from table layouts to divs.

[hbn → jes]

Click the aA button in Safari on the left of the URL bar -> "Show reader view"

It won't show the highlighting on the hex dump, but you get the article text in a more readable format for the device

[Stratoscope → jes]

Same on Android, but Chrome pops up a "Show simplified view" on the bottom that fixes it right up (at the expense of wrapping the hex dumps).