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Originally Posted by davidfor
Correct, the resolution has no real relationship to the DPI setting that Windows uses. But, as I have not changed from the default, I am running with the DPI at 100%. When I changed the DPI settings, there are no changes to the columns I see in Firefox, Chrome, Echo or IE.
I don't really think they have done that. Or at least not deliberately. Maybe thay
Your screen shot is missing something mine has. This is a banner above the list welcoming me to the new library. You can see this in the attached screenshot called "KoboLibrary-JavascriptEnabled.jpg". And it disappears in screenshot "KoboLibrary-JavascriptDisabled.jpg". And those file names explain what is going on.
It looks like the real difference is whether JavaScript is enabled or not. When I disabled it in Chrome (Firefox no longer has a global option to disable JavaScript), the banner disappeared and the columns changed as I changed the size of the browser window. The status and date added columns where displayed when the window was large enough. When I reenabled JavaScript in Chrome, the behaviour was the same as I was seeing in Firefox: the banner was displayed and the two columns were not displayed. But, they are displayed briefly when the page is first loaded. The same happened with IE11.
So the difference is that I am allowing JavaScript for all sites in Firefox, and you have JavaScript blocked in your browser. With what BrodieKobo said, that makes sense. Adding something in the JavaScript to hide these columns would be a lot cheaper change to make then the overall changes not to get the data and send it in the page. Especially when they will want to redisplay those column when they fix the sorting and other issues.
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This was on my tablet and I don't see a way to do anything with Javascript. I didn't mean that Kobo was intentionally messing up accessibility settings, but whatever they did impacts them. Unfortunately most companies don't even check out what happens when dpi is used for accessibility. The company I used to work for had to make a lot of changes for me because they ignored that stuff. Others had complained as well, but since they only preferred the changes they were ignored. I required the changes to use it so they were forced to fix it.
I looked at Kobo’s site on the PC last night and the columns were popping up and disappearing for me as well.
The site is designed to fit your screen size and remove whatever doesn't fit. This seems to be done on more and more sites lately. I am forced to browse on my tablet in landscape when I prefer portrait or else most of the content disappears. I only get three columns in portrait with or without the dpi setting removed on my tablet. On my phone I only get three columns in landscape and only the book cover in portrait, so the library is not usable at all on small devices if you need to see one of the columns that doesn't appear. That's what happens when sites are coded this way.