Got a new laptop (HP Envy x360) and the size of chrome (omni box, bookmarks, pages) are very small. Zooming only adjusts the pages and not the omni box size. Anyone is aware how to fix this?
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A colleague of another website pointed this, which went unnoticed until I paid attention. The problem is simple, fire Opera, load any website and see the images rendered in half resolution. All the images look pixelated when you double tap to zoom in; if you zoom in further it gets worser.
Anyone else?
Opera Mini 4.2 doesn’t have this problem, the built in Opera Mobile does.
Most likely your network proxy compressing them on the fly to save their bandwidth. I'm fairly sure orange do it.
Nope, I'm on WiFi connected to a network without any kind of proxy.
igalan said:
Nope, I'm on WiFi connected to a network without any kind of proxy.
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Also im noticing similar for example in Rss Hub, pictures just look disgusting, comprared to NetNewsWire in iphone for example. Opera is not this ugly, but I noticed that too when i got this phone. I thought its just my imagination...
I have the same problem also in PIE., but in opera it's even worst.
I have just tried with my Diamond, and same thing. So it must be Opera that has designed the browser to present lower resolution images in order to preserve memory or speed up browsing. Nevertheless, it's a pity that you don't have the real thing on such a high resolution screen.
Opera Mini 4.2 does use full resolution images, but more compressed. It looks much better.
and there's nothing in opera:config
Yes, I've looked at opera.ini but there's nothing related. The registry doesn't have any setting either .
Nice to find you also here igalan (nos leemos...).
Doesn't look so bad for me.
Make a try with google images in full resolution and zoom in. No pixelation at all until you zoom too much
Hi man!
Ok, I've found the reason of all this. When you double tap on Opera, the zoom level that is being applied is larger than 100% which means that pictures are stretched and results in some pixelation. Manually reducing the zoom level until you get the page rendered in 1:1 resolution (not zoomed out or zoomed in) gets you full quality images as well.
i connected my laptop up to mt hd via wifi to use it's HSDPA connection. browsing in firefox images are rendered in half resolution. when i hover over an image a message appears saying press shift+r to improve the quality of this image. when i do that it downloads the image again in full resolution.
the fact that i'm using firefox on my laptop and just using the internet connection on my phone makes me think that my network provider is the problem.
what do you think?
I was wondering if anyone is also having this problem.. when i use the net on my phone some of the images are just too blurry is there any way to fix this.. and yes i have searched the forums and google but can't seem to find a solution...tia
What browser are you using? Opera Mobile 9.7? Opera Mobile 10 has an option to compress pictures that may have been enabled (who wouldn't enable a "turbo" mode?), and Opera Mini does it by default.
i was using Opera 9.7 and 10 but its still the same... i did however notice on skyfire
that they looked a bit better
Try looking at them on internet explorer. Notice any difference?
The problem is that the browsers are not drawing images at a 1:1 pixel ratio, instead they're being stretched awkwardly and no filter is being applied.
For Opera 9.7, you can use the opera:config menu to fix this, just on the area for "Adaptive Zoom", change the "Default Zoom" to 100 and for extra credit change the Virtual Window Width to 1024 (most pages are designed to work on a 1024-wide window).
After this, your full zoom-out will show the whole page fitted left-to-right. When you double-tap to zoom-in, you'll be at 1:1 (usually, sometimes it takes more than one try, zooming is kinda shaky) pixel ratio, so all your images will look crisp and sharp.
There's nothing you can do about Opera 10, they screwed it up and there's no way to get the pixel ratio on images at 1:1, the same can be said about IE and Skyfire (though both of those do a better job at applying some filters to images).
There's something about HVGA that browsers don't like...
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What browser are you using? Opera Mobile 9.7? Opera Mobile 10 has an option to compress pictures that may have been enabled (who wouldn't enable a "turbo" mode?), and Opera Mini does it by default.
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Opera Mobile's "Turbo" is horribly broken. Most of the time page-loading will be a lot slower with "Turbo" on (most noticeable while using WiFi).
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The problem is that the browsers are not drawing images at a 1:1 pixel ratio, instead they're being stretched awkwardly and no filter is being applied.
For Opera 9.7, you can use the opera:config menu to fix this, just on the area for "Adaptive Zoom", change the "Default Zoom" to 100 and for extra credit change the Virtual Window Width to 1024 (most pages are designed to work on a 1024-wide window).
After this, your full zoom-out will show the whole page fitted left-to-right. When you double-tap to zoom-in, you'll be at 1:1 (usually, sometimes it takes more than one try, zooming is kinda shaky) pixel ratio, so all your images will look crisp and sharp.
There's nothing you can do about Opera 10, they screwed it up and there's no way to get the pixel ratio on images at 1:1, the same can be said about IE and Skyfire (though both of those do a better job at applying some filters to images).
There's something about HVGA that browsers don't like...
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Ok thanks Jubeh i followed your configs and it did improve image viewing... i'm glad you know more about this because i couldn't find a solution so thank you my friend
Hi,
Has anyone found a browser that allows you to read the on line archives of the New Yorker magazine? The built in browser only shows part of each page and does not let you move the screen around to see the rest of the page. Have tried all the UA strings but no joy.
I did find that I could read using the Dolphin browser as long as I use the URL of archives.newyorker.com/ipad and set the UA string to ipad though the display is still less than ideal. Sometimes portrait mode single page display shows the full page but reduced in size to about 75% of normal so it does not fill the screen and the type is quite small. Other times it does actually fill the screen but has a flashing white bar at the bottom.
Perhaps someone who is more familiar with Dolphin can suggest what adjustments to the settings in Dolphin will optimize the view. I'm perfectly happy using the built in browser for everything but the New Yorker and Dolphin for only the New Yorker if I could just get it to display clearly on a consistent basis. In Dolphin's page content settings, I have text size set to Large and Default Zoom set to Medium. I switched the ipad applet settings so that portrait mode shows a single page - just wish I could get rid of the flashing white line at the bottom.
On the other hand, clearly the people at the magazine don't care about Android users since the display in most Android browsers has been garbled since the first time I checked, a year or more ago but they were quick to jump on the iApple tablet bandwagon with a page optimized just for the iApple. Even the archives on DVD don't display properly when saved as a PDF since they're actually djvu files so I can say New Yorker hasn't exactly been technology-savvy or else they just want to keep selling dead-tree magazines even though they finally have a chance to ditch the paper, ink, and distribution/postage costs with a digital model if they could just embrace modern browsers and tablets.
Rob
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I'm looking to pick up a PoV / Vega, mostly for the viewing of graphically intensive, A4-sized PDF documents but since the usual stockists in the UK no longer seem to have any of these on display I can't try it out for myself..
..so can anyone comment on PDF text readability in full screen and portrait? Does the screen width of 600 necessitate constant zooming, and does the viewing angle make it a generally difficult or unpleasant experience?
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I use ezPDF to view magazines on my vega. It does a good job, there are black bars top and bottom, viewing A4 docs in portrait due to the 16:9 screen. But the text is perfectly viewable without zooming in. If the PDF is large in size and contains a lot of images, it does take the vega a second to switch pages. I can only put this down to the amount of ram in the vega, or a problem with ezPDF.
On a different note comic reader mobi works great on the vega. If you like that sort of thing...
Hope it helps
O_G
On a different note comic reader mobi works great on the vega. If you like that sort of thing...
Hope it helps
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I do.. and it does!
I mostly plan to replace my bookshelf of roleplaying games with PDF equivalents (thankfully most publishers launch print and PDF versions of their products at the same time, now) and I'll be changing over my magazine subscriptions to PDF downloads once they become available.
So it seems like the Vega is going to be a good choice. Thanks again!
I'll echo most of what OG said. ezPDF reader is the best, Adobe's own one runs a little slow on it and the touch screen goes a bit funky. I would say the only problems with viewing PDFs (or anything else) in portrait are the 16:9 orientation (most tablets go for 16:10 now, or 4:3 for iPad) leaving so much unused space, and the viewing angle. The viewing angle isn't much of a problem in landscape but in portrait I can't actually seem to find an angle where it actually looks right... at all. If your PDF is just black type on white you probably won't notice though.
I find that the 5.3 inch high definition screen on the Note means there is usually no need for panning and zooming whilst Web browsing. I normally see a whole Web page in portrait view and if the text is too small to read or select with a finger then landscape view plus the S-Pen usually works. I am using the Dolphin browser where you can easily select Desktop and full page viewing. Of course a large Tablet is better, but no use for carrying around as a phone.
it would be much better if the default browser had a more permanent way of defaulting to desktop versions of pages.
but with other browsers, its a better experience.
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I find that the 5.3 inch high definition screen on the Note means there is usually no need for panning and zooming whilst Web browsing. I normally see a whole Web page in portrait view and if the text is too small to read or select with a finger then landscape view plus the S-Pen usually works. I am using the Dolphin browser where you can easily select Desktop and full page viewing. Of course a large Tablet is better, but no use for carrying around as a phone.
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I have the same setup and find the experience a pleasant one.
Gaugerer said:
I find that the 5.3 inch high definition screen on the Note means there is usually no need for panning and zooming whilst Web browsing. I normally see a whole Web page in portrait view and if the text is too small to read or select with a finger then landscape view plus the S-Pen usually works. I am using the Dolphin browser where you can easily select Desktop and full page viewing. Of course a large Tablet is better, but no use for carrying around as a phone.
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It's much easier to browse web sites on the Note. I can see much more of the site in the screen and find little if any need to go look on a computer instead.
After testing all the browsers the boat browser mini is speeediest by far... Haveused it for months... Try others... Always come back.