Originally Posted by
sleepngbear I'm confused about the missing double-tap complaints -- I have it on my browser. Depending on the site, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. But whenever I'm on a full-view version of a site with tiny text, more often than not I can double-tap it to fill the screen. It isn't exactly the same as it was on BB7, but it's at least there. Where it usually doesn't work is on mobile sites.
Actually, the desired feature is
reflow, not just autofit. In the BBOS browser, you could choose a default font size. Since my eyes are getting old (not the rest of me, fortunately), I would set that to 10 or 11 pts. Double tapping on a text field would (a) zoom until that field fit the screen, and (b) increase the text to the set size and reflow it to fit the screen. The BB10 browser, when double tapped, only does (a), which typically results in only a small enlargement of the text size. So to read comfortably, you have to pinch zoom and then scroll back and forth because the text doesn't reflow to stay within the screen margins. In BBOS we didn't have to do this. The stock Android browser also has the zoom-reflow feature, and so do alternate browsers such as Dolphin and Opera Mini.
Reader Mode is meant to compensate for this loss, but it's not as good because it doesn't always work as intended. It doesn't work at all on some sites. To be fair, the zoom-reflow doesn't
always work either, but mostly it did. On other sites, such as some forums, Reader Mode will only display one message at a time, but not a whole column of messages. On blogs, Reader Mode will display the main blog entry but not the comments, and so on. This is why I say it feels like a kludge, a somewhat clumsy workaround for a missing feature.
Yes, the BB10 browser is fast loading and smooth. I have no criticisms of its performance in terms of speed and fluidity. But reading forums and blogs on it can be a more tiring experience than it was on my 9900, and that just shouldn't be the case. The situation is exacerbated by the fact that the current Tapatalk app for BB10 isn't the best, especially in terms of increasing font size.
For example, Chiff and Fipple is a forum that I read regularly. It's not on Tapatalk. Open this page in your Z10 browser:
Chiff and Fipple Forums • View topic - Low C / B prototype. Double tap to "zoom" and you'll get a slight zoom effect that stops when the text fills the margins, but it's still tiny. Turn it to landscape and tap again and you'll get a slight improvement, but it's still quite small. Now go into Reader Mode. You can read the lead message, but if you want to read the replies, you're out of luck. I used to read this forum all the time on my 9900 and my Samsung Blaze, and the double tap would blow the text up to a nice comfortable size. I didn't need Tapatalk. Now I seldom read it on the Z10; it's just not comfortable.
I had the same issue with my HTC Radar, running WP 7.5. I don't know if it's improved in WP 8, but it was one of the main reasons why I didn't keep the Radar. I don't know if BlackBerry has any plans to change the way the browser works. I haven't heard a hint of anything, and the PB browser certainly hasn't changed, so I'm not optimistic.
I'm putting up with it, but I'm not going to pretend it doesn't bother me, or that it's a minor detail. For me, it's anything but minor.
The reason it affects me is a lot of the YouTube videos I'm linked to opens up the desktop youtibe.com which has no 'tap and scroll' feature. Try it. Open up the browser and go to youtibe.com and try what you're saying.Hmm not sure why u need a ff or rw button when you can just scroll it to do it. Tap once on the screen the scroll with pause/play button will come up.
