The file has diagrams that are meant to be viewed on a screen with enough space to leave long lines unbroken. If you attempt to get things to fit onto a single line by turning the phone sideways, it just zooms the text, instead of reflowing the text onto a larger line width. The problem exists in both the default rendering and the reader view.

Opening in iBooks essentially prints the text file to a PDF, which defaults to US Letter paper size, which has the effect of making line widths large enough for most 80-character text files to fit without awkward mid-line soft breaks.

The only other solution I know of is to manually zoom the page out to 50%. Luckily the zoom setting is saved by domain, so in this case if you want all raw githubusercontent files to view zoomed out iOS will remember that, but on domains where it’s a mix of text and HTML it’s more annoying.

> No clue if that's a solution for you on iOS but it's a great feature.

Unfortunately, iOS browsers tends to be just reskins of Safari (because it's required by Apple).

Hard-wrapping is my bane. Especially in RFCs.

Does that mean that a browser shouldn't be able to display a text file with explicit line breaks, though?

I love text files and kinda like hard wrapping as well.