Text Wrap / Text Reflow
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forum.ru-board.com -- the forum is ancient, from the 2000s (builded on text-files). Here on forum.vivaldi.net-- Text Wrap works across the entire range (but it doesn't track screen zoom changes). But on other forums, her behavior is changing. After 170%, it stops working and the text goes off the phone screen. Different behavior at different scales, on different forums :).
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@sphera said in Text Wrap / Text Reflow:
forum.ru-board.com -- the forum is ancient, from the 2000s (builded on text-files). Here on forum.vivaldi.net-- Text Wrap works across the entire range. But on other forums, her behavior is changing. After 170%, it stops working and the text goes off the phone screen. Different behavior at different scales, on different forums :).
Try opening the first link with Opera mobile and increase the zoom factor, and you will find that the result is fantastic compared to Vivaldi mobile (and all other mobile browsers).
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If you haven't noticed, this section is for the Vivaldi mobile feature request -
yes, Opera will be cooler. It shows many sites better than Vivaldi . Without having to go into the settings. But I found a page that she also can't display correctly.
If you haven 't noticed , then read my message again . There is an example, with a picture, where the Text-Wrap function works better in Developer Tools than in Opera Mobile. It cuts a string of any length for any screens. And without any patents. This is from desktop . It is not difficult, and for free, to transfer this from Chromium Windows to Chromium Android. Chromium is still an open project.
I will translate for you a picture from this Russian forum -- this line describes the icon in base64 format. I believe that this is directly related to the Chromium project. Details from the local @Capushon
If this post from the old forum will be displayed Vivaldi correctly, then this feature has been improved. And Opera Mobile will not be able to demand anything. On the contrary, she will pay for the Vivaldi patent herself.
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I've done some experimenting. On some websites, vivaldi can handle this perfectly fine.
e.g. On theguardian.com if I go to menu > default zoom, it works perfectly. It resizes to the column width of the portrait screen.
On other sites, especially those that use desktop mode, it does absolutely nothing, or only works as if it was doing pinch to zoom.
So the feature seems to be there, it just needs a bit of coercing to make it work right.
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@LonM How is the feature there? The point of wrap/reflow is to have the text automatically wrap when you zoom. This doesn’t work, because the feature is not implemented. Even on Guardian articles it doesn’t work. And you need this feature the most on old‐school pages without mobile layout, so… I don’t see your point.
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@luetage I mean there's a zoom slider in vivaldi android which works like I'd expect on desktop, and when I'm on certain pages, I can drag the slider and the font size changes without words slipping out of the visible area.
That tells me there's no technical or legal barriers preventing reflow (as suggested earlier in this thread). What's needed is to figure out what those pages, where it works, are doing, and to try and replicate that.
There was some bookmarklet code posted earlier, but that's not helpful, so these sites where reflow works right must be doing something else. I'm just wondering what it is, and if it might be easy to copy and use for this feature to put up the right "guardrails" around the visible area.
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Instead of the text wrapping and extension support, we get bloated games like vivaldia in the browser.
Great progress and added value...
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Is there some information on the current state of this featur request?
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@bariton said in Text Wrap / Text Reflow:
Is there some information on the current state of this featur request?
I would like to know if there is any hope.
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@summoner That’s completely unrelated. None of the people working on browser features worked on the game. Just like Vivaldia 1 it was created by a different company, Porcelain Fortress.
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@Zalex108 I see, "in progress" sound promising. A bit vague though
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I 100 percent agree. It would really help and improve everyone's experience and productivity. Not sure why it's not been implemented yet.
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@vivandroid Because it has to be written from scratch, and is really, really difficult.
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Yes, I confirm that theguardian.com is working. And it works correctly in the entire range , up to 300% . You can take the structure of theguardian.com as a sample.
It's easy to see the result on bolshoyvopros.ru - there are frames around the questions. It can be seen that scaling with wrap works up to exactly 140%. A larger percentage no longer takes into account the screen size.
it works on this forum too, but only up to 150% . ????
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />This line is everywhere, absolutely on all sites. But here it has some problems with writing. And only Opera can read it.
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I found a complex page where the text wrap works on the entire range
https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/746680 -
I just created a userscript which reflows text on zoom by pinch gesture. I think it works quite similar to the reflow feature from Opera Mobile.
It doesn't incorporate any complicated AI stuff suggested in this topic, but simply limits the max width of all found text elements on page. So it could not work on some pages and some elements, for example those with
display:inlinerule. If you have any idea on how to improve the script, contributions are welcome on the Github page!
Maybe some day Vivaldi will support userscripts and you could install it here as well. But until then please feel free to try it using other browsers with userscript support, such as Kiwi, Berry Browser or Cromite. I also published it as a Firefox Addon for Android.
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I would prefer if this is under a toggle. I hate when I zoom in and content starts changing.
