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> If my browser window is the width of a mobile phone’s screen It's not, is the thing. I have a 23 inch screen for my 1080p screen. My phone has a 6ish inch d
by t-writescode 5y ago
> If my browser window is the width of a mobile phone’s screen
It's not, is the thing.
I have a 23 inch screen for my 1080p screen. My phone has a 6ish inch diagonal.
When I make a window 960 x 1080, that's still something like 10 inches across and 11 inches tall. It's sheet-of-paper sized. I'm perfectly comfortable reading that as it was designed for a desktop layout.
- account42 5y ago> I have a 23 inch screen for my 1080p screen. My phone has a 6ish inch diagonal. Do you sit as close to your monitor as you hold your phone?
- OJFord 5y agoNot GP, but yeah, about the same? From your phrasing I expect it's how close we hold our phones that differs though.
- t-writescode 5y agoI would say that half of my monitor, more accurately, is about the dimensions of an iPad at comfortable viewing distance. Phones are far taller than half of a 1080p screen. Half a monitor is: 960 x 1080, or 1:1.125 A iPhone is: 828 x 1792, or 1:2.164 So websites tend to shove a candybar shape into a nearly square sheet of paper and waste a lot of usable proportions for things like controls or hamburger menus.