running official GB i somehow got my browser to go into a "tiled view" (like you can on a ps3) but it was of my recently viewed pages. they were lined up side by side and zoomed out abit and there was a dot indicator ....... showing which window out of however many (like 8 or so) i was viewing at the top. cant figure out how it happened or find it on google
Thanks
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.
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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!
On the s3 there was an option in the web browser settings to auto fit pages. What it did was when you was reading something it automatically fit it to the page so you didnt have to scroll left or right to read things. Do they have this option on the s4? I really miss it. I also miss if you pinched all the way in on the s3, it would open up all the web pages you have open and running.
Hi,
I had a PDF document opened in Moon+Reader Pro (on Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 8.0) in Portrait mode. With this PDF if I swiped from Right to Left the pages transitioned over the page borders. If I removed my finger mid way I would be able to see part of left page, a thin border and part of the (following) right page. If I swiped again I would progress to the next page. Swiping in the other direction allowed me to do the reserve. This feature was fantastic for viewing wide photos that span two pages.
Putting it differently I could have part of page x and part of page x+1 on the screen.
After reading this PDF I deleted it and then decided to tinker the settings. From this point on wards any PDF I open no longer supports this function. Now as I swipe the pages do shift as described above but the moment I remove my finger the page "adjusts" so that a single page is visible.
This feature is really useful to me. I really like Moon+ Reader but would consider any Android app that supports this feature for PDFs.
Thanks for your help
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?