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Comment by swombat | Hacker News Reader

I often browse HN from my iPhone and it works great... not sure what else you need.

Oh, actually, just one thing - links in the message body. Since iPhones can't copy/paste, those might as well not be there. Otherwise, it seems pretty functional to me... I've browsed articles and comments, posted comments, checked my threads for responses... all worked absolutely fine.

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I often browse HN from my iPhone as well, and my main problem is readability. Its viewport sets the width to 980, and at the screensize of the phone, the text becomes too small.

I have a bookmarklet that tries to set the width to 480. It works really well for the front page, but not so much for comment pages when there are lost of nested comments.

Bigger arrows for up/down votes. It's pretty hard to hit the right one on the iphone.

My other comment includes a link to a demo of larger, better spaced voting arrows for the iPhone.

The grandparent issue -- clickable links in top text -- can be fixed with a bookmarklet, even on the iPhone:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=430725

not sure what else you need.

If the user agent matches an iPhone, then make the borders a few pixels wide and make the content stretch across the screen. Then it would be pretty much perfect.

The content already does stretch across the screen for iPhones. I'm probably misunderstanding you, though.

I just mean that on the iPhone, the white borders take up a ridiculous amount of space that could be used for text. It's my only complaint about viewing this site on the iPhone.

Oh. Double-tap on any headline to fit the content to the screen. Works like a charm.

Yes, but it would be nice if the page just loaded like that instead.

Bigger upvote arrows. Everything else is largely ok as is. I don't recommend a wholesale style change. Tweak one thing at a time and see how it looks.

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