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I am impressed by the amount of work someone did to make this site completely unusable on iOS devices.

It loads slowly, poorly animates (what for?), scrolls abysmally, and prevents zooming in.

I'm sorry for the slightly off-topic comment, but I think this needs to be said. I long for clean, simple, readable web pages.

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I'm the author and maker of this board. The blog is hosted on blogger (Google). When I decided to use blogger I wrongly assumed that it will 'just work' across platforms, but it hasn't been the case, unfortunately. There isn't much I can do in terms of configuration, and the only option is to find a new blogging platform, which I may do in the future.

I think it is because of the Blogger's "Dynamic Views" template your blog uses. Maybe another (more classic) template would be better for cross-device compatibility.

I will test that, although I'd normally expect this brand name service's back-end to handle this stuff gracefully.

Blogger is a rather poorly supported product at Google. I'm sure it's on the chopping block soon as it duplicates a lot of G+ functionality.

... and to be honest, this might not be such a bad thing. For simple articles, G+ is about a billion times better than blogger, and would make a pretty good replacement for many people.

Indeed, ideally as part of such a move, they'd enhance G+ a bit[1] to cover the areas where it's currently weaker than blogger. Then everybody would win...

[1] E.g. better support for formatting articles; curently it only supports a rather pathetic subset of markdown.

You don't necessarily have to get off blogger. You can change the template to be more sane. Currently you are using the "dynamic view" template with "magazine" as the default view. If you select "classic" (the first choice in all the dynamic view templates) your blog will stop popping up light boxes by default.

Any template outside of the "dynamic view" category will be even better. Where better means to me "does not need JavaScript to display properly".

I hate what blogger is doing, but the project is very cool.

The thing is, Mobile Safari and the Chrome on Android are perfectly good web browsers, and can render web pages pretty much exactly as can a desktop browser. Misfeatures like this are the result of pathetic platform envy. Yes, native applications have access to superior controls. No, your uncanny valley reimplementation of native UI is not cool; it's not innovative; it's bad design. It's dishonest, aggravating, and in a better world, would lead to revocation of the offender's internet license.

which leads me to mention : http://motherfuckingwebsite.com

It was referenced here yesterday and now it ranks with "Programming MutherFucker" in my brain.

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