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My problem with those responsive web sites is that they only react to changes of the browser window width, but not the height. For example, on this page, you c
by Gring 15y ago
My problem with those responsive web sites is that they only react to changes of the browser window width, but not the height.
For example, on this page, you can change the width so that we only see 3 short sentences. But if you change your browser height from 800x800 to 800x350, you still get the full, long text, but it's cut off in the middle, and there is a scroll bar. If the author's intent was to try hard to show those 3 short sentences without readers needing to scroll, then it fails here.
Responsive websites should be thinking "ok, I've got this amount of space here, let's fill it in the best way possible", not "ok let's make 3 designs based on browser width".
- monsterix 15y agoAbsolutely. Responsive design is simply shifting two-column into one-column and getting away with it. That's not always a preferred way, I'd say. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3597932 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3597932