481567 - Difficult to read text on sites like google reader

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Stuart Parmenter]

When we zoom pages to fit, text can often be difficult to read.  We should take a look at using text-only zoom or another feature to increase our default text size.

Comment 1

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Attachment: simple patch to play with textZoom

This patch uses ctrl+d to make textZoom larger and ctrl+u make textZoom smaller in 0.1 increments

Comment 2

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Attachment: patch

This patch defaults the textZoom to 1.2

I need a docShell to set the textZoom, so I do it in networkStart for two reasons:
1. It's early and setting the textZoom _will_ cause a full redraw, even though we only set it once per browser. networkStart should be early enough that the full redraw won't cause too much extra work, since we need to draw a lot of the page anyway.

2. networkStart is _not_ called during startup on the firstrun page. I don't know why, but this means we don't take a hit during startup for any redraws.

There is some minor cleanup I stumbled into as well.

Comment 3

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

http://hg.mozilla.org/mobile-browser/rev/a949ef1a838a

Comment 4

[Joel Maher ( :jmaher ) (UTC -8)]

verified with beta3 on n810.  For winmo, we might have other issues regarding overlapping text which happen to show up on google reader.