Not really related to the article, but would you look at that web page. This is what all of them should look like! Nothing fancy, just good content, 64.91KB in total.
It boggles my mind why reflow is not one of the most important and most highly regarded features of any mobile browser.
on opera mobile: are you truly comfortable to use a 'default on man-in-the-middle-ware' from china? (it proxies everything and compresses it, to save data bandwidth)
i stopped using it in August because of that. might've been too paranoid though.
Personally I am less concerned about the Boogiemen from China/Russia than about the pervasive ruin of privacy by US companies.
>it is your browser's duty to render it nicely
I think browsers should have the ultimate say on how to display websites, according to the user's preferences (think of text size and colors). Sadly, with websites gradually transforming into "web apps", users are losing control.
[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/En-us/firefox/addon/fit-text-to-w...