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"falsehoods developers believe about screens" ?

• mhh__ 6y ago
  A collection of deep-deep dives on various topics would be a fun thing for someone who can build a nice website to do (You don't want to see my attempts at being a designer). For example, "What every programmer should know about memory" covers memory but what about (as you say) screens.
  • edent 6y ago
    You might enjoy https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
• hombre_fatal 6y ago
  No. Just simple heuristics that work for most users at the expense of people who admit, like OP's opening statement, "I’m a weirdo". Building responsive client UI is hard. In my experience here, the falsehoods HNers believe about clients is that it's somehow not hard. Or just a silver bullet away from being easy (like replacing JS with $faveLang). Or that resources are infinite such that every defect is explained by incompetence (except for, presumably, that HNer who is intimately familiar with resource finitude in their own life).
  • jariel 6y ago
    It's 'hard' largely because the standards bodies and browser makers fail to provide simple and expedient means to do the most basic of operations, making every little thing a designer wants to do a giant hack. For something so universal ... there should be a very clear and unambiguous function call and at least a rational way to move through the fragmentation molasses.
• patrickaljord 6y ago
  More like testing for an infinite number of resolutions is expensive so developers only test on the main ones and the ones used by hackers on Pop_OS Linux that rotate their screen 90 degrees are out of luck and default to one of the tested resolutions :)