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Also on this topic, please stop letting css/viewport dictating weather I see a menu on the left or not. I'd like to resize my browser window and put it at the

by rroot 4y ago

Also on this topic, please stop letting css/viewport dictating weather I see a menu on the left or not. I'd like to resize my browser window and put it at the side of my screen to use as a reference. Then I usually have to fight with zoom levels to get that menu to disappear! Even Mozilla is an offender with their otherwise splendid MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document_Object_Model https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document_Ob...

aendruk 4y ago
Some sites are comically bad, either needlessly hiding their menu or turning it into a one-column tower that looks ridiculous at full viewport width (half my laptop screen). It took me embarrassingly long to discover the cause of the problem; I’d thought it was just a horrible trend in contrived minimalist design. I’m tempted to start a gallery a la Plain Text Offenders or js;dr.
Wowfunhappy 4y ago
I disagree! When my viewport is larger, I have space for niceties like always-visible menus. When my viewport is smaller, I need what little space is available to be entirely dedicated to content, even if it means open menus takes an extra click. I want websites to manage this tradeoff for me when I zoom or resize my browser window.
- wruza 4y ago
  Both of you may be satisfied with a simple override switch-button. Yours will be always on, gp’s always off.
  - Wowfunhappy 4y ago
    I was actually thinking after my comment... what if you could hold down e.g. shift while resizing the browser to resize the window without resizing the viewport reported to the website? So you could make the window narrower, then scroll horizontally so the menu is off-screen.
    - wruza 4y ago
      I move a window past the screen partially when needed. But it doesn’t work well at two-display border. Another real option is to find a container div and pin its width via stylebot.
alvarlagerlof 4y ago
But it doesn't fit when its small?

by rroot 4y ago

aendruk 4y ago

Some sites are comically bad, either needlessly hiding their menu or turning it into a one-column tower that looks ridiculous at full viewport width (half my laptop screen). It took me embarrassingly long to discover the cause of the problem; I’d thought it was just a horrible trend in contrived minimalist design. I’m tempted to start a gallery a la Plain Text Offenders or js;dr.

Wowfunhappy 4y ago

I disagree! When my viewport is larger, I have space for niceties like always-visible menus. When my viewport is smaller, I need what little space is available to be entirely dedicated to content, even if it means open menus takes an extra click. I want websites to manage this tradeoff for me when I zoom or resize my browser window.

wruza 4y ago
Both of you may be satisfied with a simple override switch-button. Yours will be always on, gp’s always off.
- Wowfunhappy 4y ago
  I was actually thinking after my comment... what if you could hold down e.g. shift while resizing the browser to resize the window without resizing the viewport reported to the website? So you could make the window narrower, then scroll horizontally so the menu is off-screen.
  - wruza 4y ago
    I move a window past the screen partially when needed. But it doesn’t work well at two-display border. Another real option is to find a container div and pin its width via stylebot.

alvarlagerlof 4y ago

But it doesn't fit when its small?