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Kinda frustrating that an article calling out where programmers fall short was a non-responsive document that was almost unreadable on mobile. Mildly ironic?
by adamparsons 7y ago
Kinda frustrating that an article calling out where programmers fall short was a non-responsive document that was almost unreadable on mobile. Mildly ironic?
- coldtea 7y agoNo, mildly unrelated and orthogonal. Not everybody cares for their website to be read well on mobile (I, for one, don't), and not everybody who runs a blog has/wants control over the posting environment (they just pick an engine and them and be done with it -- if the readers find their work valuable enough, they can spend some effort to read it).
- adamparsons 7y agoActually you very specifically choose your posting environment as an individual, what an odd and misleading statement. It’s a shame that you write content but don’t believe it to be important to care about the largest fraction of readers. I’d hope for your sake that you reconsider.
- coldtea 7y ago>Actually you very specifically choose your posting environment as an individual And most people just chose one that's easy to register/use/setup, and could not care less about details like design, typography, special formatting, load speed, and so on. They just want to put their words out, words being the important part. The rest is more common for designers, fiddlers and pedants... >what an odd and misleading statement And also, how true and common...
- afarrell 7y agoDoes blocks of text need responsiveness in order to be readable on mobile? What problem are you experiencing?
- adamparsons 7y agoAs in, the page width stays at full desktop width and to make the font a readable size you must zoom in, making reading a scrolling in two directions excercise. So yes, blocks of text should be responsive to screen size.
- codycraven 7y agoThe text is very, very small on a mobile device (XL devices may be easier). Requiring anyone with a small/normal sized device without near perfect vision to zoom in and swipe left/right to read a single line of text. For example I'm on a normal sized device and can't read the text at a zoom level that shows an entire line without my glasses (and my vision isn't too bad, I'm legally allowed to drive without my glasses).
- mjw1007 7y agoThis is what "reader mode" is for. The text is using good oldfashioned html markup (basically just h2, p, code, a, em). So there's no reason why you should have to use the stylesheet provided by the site, and with a sensible browser you don't have to.
- frou_dh 7y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9238739 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9238739
- adamparsons 7y agoI’d argue that it’s quite on topic being a post about the skills developers lack. It seems this developer doesn’t regard a11y as an important skill, which is unfortunate or perhaps just an oversight.
- rowanG077 7y agoAn article about bad programmers by someone who is so bad that he can't handle putting up simple static text on a web page sanely is wildly relevant.
- jazzyjackson 7y ago12pt font does make it pretty unreadable on mobile, but thankfully firefox reader mode fixes the issue by dropping the stylesheet.