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> Web designers want their websites to look a certain way right down to the pixel I’d say we’re actually further away from that than we’ve ever been. I’m old e
by afavour 3y ago
> Web designers want their websites to look a certain way right down to the pixel
I’d say we’re actually further away from that than we’ve ever been. I’m old enough to remember <table> based designs, “best viewed at 800x600” etc etc. These days we have responsive design, adaptive color palettes for dark mode and accessibility, flags for users the prefer more contrast, reduced motion, etc etc etc.
User preference time display is interesting but I don’t think it’s realistic. My preferences can be universally applied without context.
- corbezzoli 3y agoAnd yet people will load a megabyte of JavaScript just to create a date picker that looks nice while you need about 20 characters to get a bugfree one in HTML: <input type="date"> Everything you described is nice, but in the end it’s still up to the developer to support it and especially to choose its behavior. I can technically use “when reduced motion, html {animation: shake 1s infinity}” My idea of “user agent” is Safari’s Reader Mode.
- troupo 3y agoTBF the default date picker in browsers is borderline unusable: it's very small with extremely tiny click/touch targets