Pocket IE too aggressive in fitting to screen - MDA, XDA, 1010 General

Anyone know a way to force PIE to NOT resize images to fit the screen? Specifically, I am trying to view cartoons on my XDA, and PIE compresses them so much as to make it illegible. The web page in question has nothing but a newspaper-type cartoon strip. Disabling "Fit to Screen" has little impact.
I've looked for (freeware) IE plugins or alternative browsers, to no avail.

I found Avantgo was doing the compression, not PIE itself. When I synced thru Mobile Favorites, with "Fit To Screen" turned off the GIFs showed original size.

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Can anyone recommend a good pdf viewer mainly for textbooks? I had a transformer and they have a really good reader called "My Library". I like the fact you can double tab on any part of the screen and it will fit the page vertically so you can just scroll left and right to view the left portion and right portion of the page without scrolling up or down. Does anyone know a app that does something like this? I just bought ezPDF reader and when I double tap it zooms too far in so instead of fitting the page vertically. This is all in portrait mode if that matters.
Haven't tried it myself, but saw on the mobi forums that a lot of people like Mantano Reader (https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mantano.reader.android&feature=search_result). Seems to have a bunch of PDF features plus epub abilities.

[Q] Anyone have a fix for this?

The reason I DON'T have an Android phone yet is because of a failing in Android navigation on a website that is important to me. Let me describe the situation.
A website that I frequent returns a display with a scrollbar on the far right side. Within the same display is a smaller "box" that also has a scrollbar. For those of you who are "show me" types, go to tvguide.com, click on "What's on TV", put in a zipcode, cable, pick a cable provider, select "all premium channels" (or whatever) then Go. The resulting "small box" is the one with the individual channel listings on it. Tell me what's on channel 45.
How do I navigate within the smaller box? If you touch the screen and move your finger "down" the big display moves down. I want the small display to move down.
The iPad, on the same website, has the same problem. But I accidentally discovered that if I touch the screen inside the small box with TWO FINGERS, spread a little apart, (like I am going to zoom in or zoom out), but keep the fingers exactly the same distance apart, and move BOTH of them down or up at one time, the small display moves up and down, while the big display stays the same.
Does that make sense? I have tried the two-finger method on TMo's newest Android phone, but can't get the bottom of the small box. TMobile says "tap the small screen first" but all that does on either of the two websites is "select" that line/television show.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
TonyMo
Is the site optimized for mobile devices?
Try doing a double tap in the small box. That's what I do in situations like this. It usually works.
Sent from my DINC2
I would suggest trying a different browser. I know you may not have that option (since you don't own and Android device? Guessing you're borrowing?) but I use Dolphin HD and it works flawlessly. When I open the page you mention (tvguide.com) the scroll inside and outside the smaller widow work independently. This on a device running Android 2.3
No, neither website is (apparently) mobile-friendly. Then again, I'm not a fan of mobile-direct websites. They usually lack the content that I am looking for. Not a fan of "apps" because I don't want to have to have an app for every website I visit. I want a mobile browser that does whatever an immobile browser does! I want it all. And I want it now!

Android web browsers - unwanted zoom on text field selection

Hi,
This is a thing that has annoyed me with Android from the start, but after a lot of searching, I have not found a way to disable or stop the behavior.
So my problem is that with all versions of Android and all the web browsers for Android I have tried, web pages always zoom in when you select a text entry field on a web page.
So for example on my Note 3 and Nexus 7 I go to, say theregister.co.uk. The phone /tab is in landscape mode and the page is set to a zoom where all the article titles are legible. There is a search field at the top right hand corner of the web page which is also a a legible size. I select it to enter text and the screen is zoomed in so that the field fills the whole of the screen, that is not filled by the keyboard.
If any of the text I start to enter brings up any suggestions, due to the zoom level, they are lost behind the soft keyboard. I zoom out to look at them and they dis-pear. I select the text field again to add or delete text, to make those suggestions come up again and I get zoomed in to far again. I then give up put the phone or tablet down and use a windows laptop etc instead.
Now I understand why this would have been desirable initially in Android, when phones had small screens and on ones with small screens today, but why is this needed on larger screens or even tablets?
It makes things like posting this forum post very frustrating on an Android device. I know there is an App for XDA, but is is not a powerful as using the forum direct through a web page. So I cannot replace having a windows etc PC around as Android does not give comparable web page interaction experience.
So I wanted to know if anyone knew of a way of disabling this behavior if so desired? Or if there is a browser out there where this does not happen?

How to view (and lock) a website in landscape mode with no address bar?

I built an html-based seating chart app for use in my classroom. I need to view the seating chart in fullscreen landscape mode for the duration of the class. I've been using Chrome on Android and I have some problems. The first is that the address bar takes up too much screen real estate, and it seems the only way to make it go away is to scroll down the page. So I added some space on the page above the seating chart and put a jump link at the top of the page. But still, when my screen turns off and I turn it back on, it automatically rotates into portrait mode and jumps back to the top of the page. Any ideas for a good solution? I have control of both the web html and my phone, so there should be lots of options. Maybe a browser on Android with a fullscreen option?

Keeping vivid display settings in reading apps

On my Tab S7+, if I use Moon+ Reader or any other reading app, the page turns yellow. If I have a YouTube popout video video playing, the page will stay white until I close the window. Does anybody know if there's a way to fix this or is there an app that stays on top of other windows but is smaller than the YouTube window? I know I can use multi-window mode and resize it but it would be nice to just open an app to have vivid stay on. Or, is there a way to enable rotation in Dex? The yellowing doesn't occur in Dex mode but the tablet only works in landscape with Dex.
P.S. If anybody feels like making an app that floats over other apps but is transparent or tiny, that would be great.

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