While I don’t know the trick you are looking for, I do have a great alternative solution.
Get Atomic Web browser from the App Store.
It has an enlarge font feature and you can choose to have it remember to enlarge the font for a site everytime it loads it.
Once you enlarge the font, double tap the articles column and the headlines fit the screen perfectly. When you click the headline, the next page’s post and all the replies also fit the screen.
It is a great Safari replacement, it has tabs and lots of other nice features.
There’s a free version but I liked it so much i bought the paid one.
Oh, one other thing — I first heard about this browser because Rush was talking about it and recommending it on his show!
Hope you like it as much as I do!
YESSSSSS! It works! OK, now I have the learning curve of a new browser, but I didn’t much like Safari anyway!
THANK YOU!
Anyone wishing to solve the article and comment-reading problems on their iPhone should download this browser. Wow, I can have the font exactly as I want each time I visit FR on my phone automatically (once you set it up as in Worrywart’s post - and the set up is not hard if I can do it). No scrolling from side to side at all. Comfort and ease for fast FReeping wherever I am!
This is better than the previous “trick” I was begging for last night, because that setup involved having to hit the special bookmark for each and every FR page you switch to, even if it’s just a new page of comments on the same thread, or just hitting “back.”
Thanks for also mentioning that Rush recommended it; he squeezes a lot of use out of his phone, so that’s a good rec right there.
Anyone having trouble doing it, just ask. It seems like a great browser, and I placed it in the position on my icons where Safari used to be, now.
Woo Hoo!!
Thanks for that tip.