After deleting my IE history and cookies Android central won't scale correctly

[Dominik Dominik]

Mobile site gets to wide...

 

[mickydale]

I have this same problem with numerous sites... I have tried everything for a fix with no luck

 

[Dominik Dominik]

so it probably has to do something with IE, right?

 

[greycounciller]

Sorry. If it was a reply to my earlier post, I deleted and posted it to a more appropriate thread. But basically, on only that one site, it will only load the desktop page. It was fine before under 8.0 and when I 1st put the preview on. Soon after using the sync feature in 8.1, that page will only load as is. I've altered the page address to 'm.reddit.com, I.reddit.com and http://i.reddit.com/r/windowsphone/.compact. All come up only in desktop mode.

Here's an example :

 

[Laura Knotek]

Are you using the Android Central forums or blogs?

If you are using the forums, you might want to try the Tapatalk app. I use Tapatalk to view the Android Central forums. It is a free app.

Check out "Tapatalk" for Windows Phone http://www.windowsphone.com/s?appid=913ffd61-3ba0-435c-a894-9d3ec7e78d6e

 

[greycounciller]

Thanks, yeah, it's an idea, but I do like to go via the browser. Does the IE sync feature have anything to do with it though?

@Laura Knotek, I do have Tapatalk, just don't like using it.

 

[James Falconer]

@All that are having issues with the site displaying too wide... what devices and version of IE are you running? Also, any screenshots would be helpful.

 

[Laura Knotek]

I'm running IE 11 mobile in desktop view. Nokia Lumia 920, Windows Phone 8.1 Preview.
Sent from my Nokia Lumia 920 using Tapatalk

 

[Laura Knotek]

Another screenshot
Sent from my Nokia Lumia 920 using Tapatalk

 

[greycounciller]

@All that are having issues with the site displaying too wide... what devices and version of IE are you running? Also, any screenshots would be helpful.

As my sig, Dev Preview 8.1, installed yesterday.

Android Central is fine on mine....



how does http://i.reddit.com/r/windowsphone/.compact open on yours?

 

[EchoOne30]

That's been happening to me since WP7.

For some reason after a while it stops rendering pages in an easy-to-read way, and starts making them too wide.

I recently said forget it and changed it to desktop mode for everything.

 

[James Falconer]

As my sig, Dev Preview 8.1, installed yesterday.

Android Central is fine on mine....

View attachment 73116

how does /r/windowsphone open on yours?

The mobile version of AC (above) does look fine. Does the mobile version of WPC look the same on your device? (it should)

 

[greycounciller]

Yes, the whole of WPC is fine and displays as it should and I can swap the 2 modes between mobile and desktop.
Getting fed up with this, I deleted all favourites and cleared history, passwords etc....then opened the site. It has rendered correctly, except that now when I hit a link on the page, it goes back to desktop view. Hitting backspace, gets it back to mobile view. Weird and annoying.

 

[James Falconer]

Yes, the whole of WPC is fine and displays as it should and I can swap the 2 modes between mobile and desktop.
Getting fed up with this, I deleted all favourites and cleared history, passwords etc....then opened the site. It has rendered correctly, except that now when I hit a link on the page, it goes back to desktop view. Hitting backspace, gets it back to mobile view. Weird and annoying.

Trying to recreate the issue here on my Nokia with no success. Once I select the mobile template it stays on the mobile template. Same for full site, only switches when I select from the style dropdown.

Is there anything in particular that seems to trigger the switch?

 

[greycounciller]

I've got no clue as to why this happens. At the moment, I have to store the page as newest submissions : windowsphone . With the 'm' in place of 'www', it wil display correctly. If I hit a link, from say a post, which invariably will start with 'www' it goes back to desktop view. Putting an 'm' on any of those links puts it back to mobile mode. I feel I will need to completely reset this phone and see what happens.

 

[James Falconer]

Another screenshot
Sent from my Nokia Lumia 920 using Tapatalk

Laura, looking at the screenshots you've posted, it doesn't look like anything is getting cut off at all!?... only thing I see is the top slider is missing a story or two at the top, but that would have nothing to do with the browser window cutting things off.

I'd be curious to know what you get if you try from a phone WITHOUT 8.1 preview on it.

 

[greycounciller]

Just as an update, still having the same problem but, weirdly, the site displays correctly as I'd like when viewing through the UC Browser. Might have to make it the default for viewing that page.

 

[Chris B42]

I have had this problem with Android Central since the last changes to the website. This was both before and after the update to Windows Phone 8.1 (Nokia Lumia 625). I can scroll across to read the full headline & after the update switch to reading view to see the article correctly. Here is a screenshot. I have never seen this on any other websites and WPCentral is fine. Before updating to Windows Phone 8.1 Android Central would regularly cause Internet Explorer to crash, but at least this has stopped now. For those who subscribe to conspiracy theories you would suspect Microsoft does not want us reading about Android!!!

 

[Chris B42]

Here is a screenshot from my old HTC 8S which is still running Windows Phone 8 / Internet Explorer 10:

 

[greycounciller]

Good News: Did the GDR 8.1 update today and all is working as normal on all sites.