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The author of this site was engaged in a very interesting discussion over on the Internet Tablet Talk site's Newbie forum, which forms the basis of this mini-tutorial.
An enthusiastic N800 user was annoyed by how badly and slowly their tablet rendered the nytimes.com website. They said it took ages to load the page even on a broadband connection, and when it loaded it looked absolutely awful with graphics distorted and all in the wrong place. Your author was puzzled by this, because the Tablet School's N800 rendered nytimes.com very quickly and just like a PC browser.
Then a clever fellow called TabletKev suggested that the browser's "Fit Width To View" option might be responsible, and the mystery was solved.
It seems that although Fit Width To View is meant to make pages fit the window better, it can occasionally completely ruin the way certain sites look, and severely slow down how quickly they load too.
How to switch off Fit Width To View
If your N800 or N810 is rendering pages far too slowly and badly, try doing this:
1. Open a new browser window.
2. Click on the magnifying glass in the bottom right corner.
3. Un-tick the Fit Width To View option.
...and then close the browser.
Open a new browser window, try going to the sites that you had problems with and see if they are any better.
If you ever want to switch Fit Width To View back on again, just repeat the above process and tick it instead of unticking it.
Here are some photos to show the horrors that Fit Width To View unleashed on nytimes.com:
The nytimes.com website on a PC
The nytimes.com website on the tablet browser in normal mode
The nytimes.com website on the tablet browser in Fit Width To View mode
