[netsurf-users] Re: Missing links

On 4 Mar 2025 as I do recall,
Steve Fryatt wrote:

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> The site simply uses conditional CSS to adjust the layout of the page as the
> width gets smaller, which is what the media queries are for. For example my
> own sites push sidebars to the bottom of the page, remove white space,
> re-jig the navigation menus, and so on. NetSurf's windows are small enough
> by default that a "mobile" page layout will often result as standard when
> pages open, but that's things working as intended.
>
> What doesn't work as expected is that the page would reflow as the size
> changes on many other browsers, whereas NetSurf doesn't do that.
>
Well, it does reflow the text to fit the width of the window (where
sites allow it); it just doesn't re-load all the CSS styles in case
resizing the window might have altered a style definition....
The latter probably not even being an assumption worth wasting
processing power on when Netsurf was being designed, but now apparently
a frequently-deployed possibility!

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