When you use the following CSS:
-webkit-text-size-adjust: none;
You are disabling text resizing on ALL Webkit browsers. If you are trying to fix a problem with font resizing on a portable device — iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, etc — then you should take additional steps to ensure that the CSS is not applied to desktop browsers.
The Internets thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.
Lately I’ve been noticing a bunch of web sites that have defeated the text-resizing capabilities of Chrome and Safari. Usually these are the sites of design-obsessed douchebags whose opinions I would have considered to be crap anyways, but the latest site I’ve encountered to do this is the frickin’ Apple Store.
The online store for Apple products have broken a basic feature of their own damned web browser.
For reals.
Amusingly, Apple’s site resizes just fine in IE8.
The people who complain most about “non-existent documentation” are the ones who never bother searching for it in the first place. It is documented, you lazy fucking bitches.
Earlier this year Comcast launched a failed DNS redirect “service” called Domain Helper that redirected NXDOMAINs to an Advertising / Search page. Needless to say, the first time I saw one of those pages my first priority was figuring out how to make it stop. Unfortunately our Comcast account has never worked and tech support has never been able to resolve the problem so using dns-opt-out.comcast.net was not an option.
Luckily, I run a caching DNS server on my router and it supports a parameter called bogus-nxdomain. Give it the IP addresses of the Domain Helper servers and it replaces any DNS queries that return those addresses with NXDOMAIN responses. This worked well enough until the IPs changed.
So tonight I dug a little deeper and found that Comcast now has a DNS information site. Complete with a list of all of their DNS server IP address that don’t implement Domain Helper. I re-configured my router with the two servers closest to my location plus the national server nearest me and hopefully this is the last time I have to think about Domain Helper.
I was taking my dear old mum to the library and an inattentive driver backed into me in the parking lot. I called Geico, they got me an appointment at a nearby body shop for the next day, and Enterprise was waiting there to give me a car.
So the rep for the body shop is going over my car, noting all the little scratches at whatnot that you pick up from not keeping your car in a hermetically sealed room. Then she goes to record the mileage and fuel level.
“Three eighths of a tank.”
Excuse me? I just filled up yesterday, I haven’t driven thirty miles on this tank! Were you looking at the temperature gauge?
“It’s one little line below full. Three eighths.” Turns key. “See?”
Three eighths is less than half.
“Oh. Seven eighths.”
I hold no hope for America’s future.
Two Verizon CSRs demonstrate just how bad the American educational system is:
I witnessed something just like this a year or two ago. I was returning a rental car and the person ahead of me was arguing with the agent about being charged for fuel. According to their records she got the car with 4/8 of a tank and returned it with 2/4 of a tank.
I shit you not!
