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Just to provide a different perspective - the page is perfectly UNreadable on my fairly normal 1080p phone with Firefox and if I wasn't browsing HN on my Mac at
by Toutouxc 6y ago
Just to provide a different perspective - the page is perfectly UNreadable on my fairly normal 1080p phone with Firefox and if I wasn't browsing HN on my Mac atm I would've closed the article immediately for that sole reason. Yes, I am that petty. I value my time, even my lazy browsing time.
Also, a couple lines of CSS would be enough, no need to load 70 MB of JS.
- bartread 6y agoAh, yeah, fixed width layout: that's pretty annoying and one thing I don't miss from the "old" web. I do quite appreciate the overall aesthetic - as well as the page load speed - of this particular site. As you say, variable width and proper viewport support are easily fixed with a line or two of CSS, and if he did that it would work as well on mobile as it does on desktop.
- lmm 6y agoThat's crappy defaults from those browsers. I hate the point-size inflation that we've gone through because browser makers refused to do anything sensible until it was pushed by Apple and designers would always use a font size that looked right on their expensive mac, so now the only way to view a site right is to guess how old it is and then adjust your zoom to compensate. It didn't have to be like this!
- gambiting 6y agoInteresting - for me on Android in Chrome the website scales to the correct width automatically.