I found a case where the current rendering style does make the page not easily readable. It has to do with preformated text and a large table renderd in text.

The page in question:

gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/wp.cgi/view?DASH7

Posted in: s/Lagrange

🚂 MrSVCD

May 02 · 2 weeks ago

4 Comments ↓

🚀 blah_blah_blah · May 02 at 13:02:

Hi. Can you explain what you mean by the page not being easily readable? I used ctrl-mouse-wheel to zoom in/out of the page and found it readable. Before, in order to fix extra wide text into the reading window, Lagrange would use a tiny unreadable font. That was much worse than what it does now, which is allow the text to go beyond the margins.

🚂 MrSVCD [OP] · May 02 at 13:49:

Zooming out is not really a option since my stroke. My eyes are not what they used to be so to speak.

I would love a horisontal scolling option of some kind, maybe by giving a option to open preformated text in a new tab to enable scrolling in both directions. It is a flawed solution but the one I came up with on the fly.

🕹️ skyjake [mod...] · May 02 at 14:54:

Currently you can hold Shift while scrolling with mouse wheel to scroll horizontally.

I'm planning to add a horizontal scroll bar to make the scrolling clearer. This is actually a long-standing issue...

🚀 stack · May 03 at 00:54:

What I miss dearly is the ability to split the window. Even opening two windows side by side is not possible! To look at tables especially. 30 years ago all windows programs did that. Eesh. I hate to say it but windows NT software was more usable than today's flagship browserlike interfaces.