<story><title>Chinese Tech Group Led by Qihoo 360 Bids $1.2B for Browser Maker Opera</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/09/chinese-tech-group-led-by-qihoo-360-bids-1-2b-for-browser-maker-opera/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vardump</author><text>Sigh. Opera is the only (mobile) web browser that implements text reflow sensibly, limiting block level elements to screen width.&lt;p&gt;So when you zoom into text that&amp;#x27;s wider than screen, it always reflows so that just vertical scrolling is required to read it.&lt;p&gt;Other mobile browsers force me to either zoom out making text illegibly small or to continuously scroll horizontally.&lt;p&gt;I so don&amp;#x27;t want to lose such a useful browser. If Opera is gone, I might have to write my own to do the same. Or more likely to hack Chrome or Firefox to do more sensible layout.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pmontra</author><text>Yes, text reflow is essential and it&amp;#x27;s the reason I&amp;#x27;m using Opera on my phone and tablet. It&amp;#x27;s much more important that pinch to zoom: zooming is useless if you clip out half of the text you&amp;#x27;re reading and you have to start scrolling left and right.&lt;p&gt;I wonder if Opera added it to blink as a patch or if they&amp;#x27;re working on an upper layer of the software. If it&amp;#x27;s a patch it would be nice to contribute it to the main repository.&lt;p&gt;BTW, it&amp;#x27;s at &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;chromium.googlesource.com&amp;#x2F;chromium&amp;#x2F;blink&amp;#x2F;+&amp;#x2F;master&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;chromium.googlesource.com&amp;#x2F;chromium&amp;#x2F;blink&amp;#x2F;+&amp;#x2F;master&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Chinese Tech Group Led by Qihoo 360 Bids $1.2B for Browser Maker Opera</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/09/chinese-tech-group-led-by-qihoo-360-bids-1-2b-for-browser-maker-opera/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vardump</author><text>Sigh. Opera is the only (mobile) web browser that implements text reflow sensibly, limiting block level elements to screen width.&lt;p&gt;So when you zoom into text that&amp;#x27;s wider than screen, it always reflows so that just vertical scrolling is required to read it.&lt;p&gt;Other mobile browsers force me to either zoom out making text illegibly small or to continuously scroll horizontally.&lt;p&gt;I so don&amp;#x27;t want to lose such a useful browser. If Opera is gone, I might have to write my own to do the same. Or more likely to hack Chrome or Firefox to do more sensible layout.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vezycash</author><text>Text reflow is something that seems obvious. It&amp;#x27;s beyond hilarious that other browsers don&amp;#x27;t implement it.&lt;p&gt;Maybe Steve jobs needs to wake up from the grave to implement sensible browser features.&lt;p&gt;Simple font size option is absent in IE for WP. The contraption they put in its place requires changing the don&amp;#x27;t size for the entire operating system - just because I want to increase the font size of a single article.</text></comment>