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Comment by pavs | Hacker News Reader

Works fine with chrome/Android, the problem is with your HN reader. I had seen it bork few sites rendering in the past.

I'm pretty sure the HN reader uses the Android webview [1] to render all webpages, which is the same thing that is used in the Android Browser. Chrome Mobile is not available for download on devices before Android 4.0, and didn't become the default browser on Android until 4.2.

According to these stats [2], Android Browser has about 55x the usage of Chrome Mobile as of April 2013. This means ~97% of Android devices will likely show up as they do in my screenshot.

In short, the problem is not with my HN reader, the problem is with this CSS library on the most common Android browser.

[1] http://developer.android.com/reference/android/webkit/WebVie...

[2] http://caniuse.com/usage_table.php

Interesting. So I re-installed HN2 to see if I can recreate your problem, I couldn't. It works fine. And it works fine under chrome too. I also tried the Android stock browser, works fine too.

I am using SG-S3 for what its worth.

Most likely the whole css wasn't loaded completely. Could you retry couple of times to see if it happens again?

It doesn't happen every time. It happened for me for the first few pages that loaded (as I was clicking through the overlaid menu). Then it went away for a few pages, then it came back. In other words, there was no rhyme or reason, even after everything should have been cached, it would randomly happen. Usually the kind of thing you see when there's a race condition in the javascript.

Sounds like a Droid for ya. (He said, mostly in jest. Lol.)

Looks fine on default ICS browser, which version are you on?

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