Post by sub on May 6, 2021 11:16:41 GMT 12
Is it just my failing eye sight, or is the formatting becoming smaller? Even with glasses I am unable to read forum content. I have to use the zoom mode on my iPad, which is annoying as the page no longer fits on the screen, and have to swipe from side to side so I read the content!
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Font size May 6, 2021 11:20:50 GMT 12
via mobile
Post by Citroen on May 6, 2021 11:20:50 GMT 12
Looks the same to me on Android phone and Laptop using Chrome.
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Post by cartridgeguyonline on May 6, 2021 11:39:26 GMT 12
Yes its your failing eyesight sub. Time for glasses mate ! Getting old isnt for sissys....
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Post by rmc001 on May 6, 2021 13:28:59 GMT 12
I find using Tapatalk fine - on my phone - but accessing through Chrome browser much smaller.
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Post by sub on May 6, 2021 14:33:35 GMT 12
Must be me! But I do wear prescription glasses, and even then must use zoom. Waiting for cataract op (can’t really see out of L eye) so no point getting new glasses until that takes place. Not sure what is meant by Web Browser - Safari on my iPad uses Google Chrome by default. Isn’t Tapatalk only for smart phones? I only use a dumb phone. Oh, and I’ve had to buy a new iPad (my 1st gen iPad Air could only be upgraded to iOS 12.5, and I need 13.5 or better to download the App for my hearing aids). The font seems a tad smaller on my new iPad, but not by much.
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Post by harvey on May 6, 2021 15:04:57 GMT 12
There should be a setting to change the font size on your iPad. Likewise you should be able to use Tapatalk on the iPad as well, recommend you give this a go as it makes browsing forums much easier.
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Font size May 6, 2021 18:17:34 GMT 12
- Edited May 6, 2021 22:09:05 GMT 12 by RdM
Post by RdM on May 6, 2021 18:17:34 GMT 12
Not sure what is meant by Web Browser - Safari on my iPad uses Google Chrome by default. [...] Oh, and I’ve had to buy a new iPad (my 1st gen iPad Air could only be upgraded to iOS 12.5, and I need 13.5 or better to download the App for my hearing aids). The font seems a tad smaller on my new iPad, but not by much.
Safari is Apple's web browser. Microsoft Windows supplied Internet Explorer, now called Edge on Win 10. There are 3rd party ones. Google is Google's web browser, also default in its own Chrome OS. Then you have Firefox, Opera, Vivaldi, Brave - all of those are web browsers. For any platform, i.e. your device and its operating system.
A simple analogy is that a web browser is a vehicle that you can cruise and explore the 'information super highway' with - the internet. You can have more than one car in your garage, and many people have more than one browser installed - they each have different strengths. And weaknesses, perhaps. From Chrome I can save a web page as a PDF. Not from Firefox. But all have potential add-ons to extend functionality.
The first 'add-on' I usually install is "u-block origin" - to get rid of ads. Haven't looked to see if available on Safari, but maybe.
However "Google" as you use it above, "Safari on my iPad uses Google Chrome by default." is a Search Engine
(that Safari is using as the default one - it can be changed).
Microsoft Windows defaults to using Bing. People getting averse to Google's tracking have started using Duckduckgo , or, as I do now, Startpage . (Check it's menu, top right.)
Any web browser can use any search engine and be made to use whichever you prefer as the default for your searches, in its Preferences.
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It seems that since iOS 13 there is now better support for zooming only the text on a page, yet not expanding the whole page. For instance:
Here's a Startpage search you can read more links from:
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Hope that helps! ;=})
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Post by sub on May 6, 2021 21:55:37 GMT 12
Well, that worked, tapped on the aA symbol and increased size to 175%, now readable without zoom!
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Post by RdM on May 6, 2021 22:18:10 GMT 12
Great!
(I've edited my post above to hopefully be more accurate.)
As for newly perceived sounds, that needs a different reply in an other thread;-
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Post by sub on May 7, 2021 17:53:05 GMT 12
Thanks for replies. To clarify, I do know what a web browser is, been using computers since late 90s, just didn’t understand the context of the question asked in the post above, in which seems to now been edited out. Increasing the font size, and even making text bold, is easy to do on the iPad in settings, but that does not work on webpages being visited. It’s a bit annoying that new tech products are sold without instruction manuals, as obscure things, like the aA symbol can be a mystery!
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Post by RdM on May 7, 2021 18:00:11 GMT 12
I didn't mean to be condescending! I wasn't sure either. Anyway, you might find that online pdf instruction manuals are available for your iPad, either from Apple directly, perhaps searching in their support, or from the excellent everymac.com/
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